A2 (operating system)

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A2 (formerly named Active Object System (AOS),^[2] and then Bluebottle) is a modular, object-oriented operating system with unconventional features including automatic garbage-collected memory management, and a zooming user interface. It was developed originally at ETH Zurich in 2002.^[2] It is free and open-source software under a BSD-like license.