Amoeba (operating system)

Amoeba
DeveloperAndrew S. Tanenbaum
Frans Kaashoek
OS familyUnix-like
Latest release5.3 / 30 July 1996; 28 years ago (1996-07-30)[1]
Available inEnglish
Platformsi386/i486, MIPS, Motorola 68030, NS 32016, Sun 3/50 and 3/60, SPARC, VAX
Kernel typeMicrokernel
LicenseMIT License[2]
Official websitewww.cs.vu.nl/pub/amoeba/

Amoeba is a distributed operating system developed by Andrew S. Tanenbaum and others at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The aim of the Amoeba project was to build a timesharing system that makes an entire network of computers appear to the user as a single machine. Development at the Vrije Universiteit was stopped: the source code of the latest version (5.3) was last modified on 30 July 1996.[1]

The Python programming language was originally developed for this platform.[4]

  1. ^ a b "Amoeba FTP". cs.vu.nl. [permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "Licence". cs.vu.nl. Retrieved 19 July 2023.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference statusreport was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Why was Python created in the first place?". Python FAQ. Archived from the original on 23 February 2008. Retrieved 2008-02-11.