Developer | Andrew S. Tanenbaum Frans Kaashoek |
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OS family | Unix-like |
Latest release | 5.3 / 30 July 1996[1] |
Available in | English |
Platforms | i386/i486, MIPS, Motorola 68030, NS 32016, Sun 3/50 and 3/60, SPARC, VAX |
Kernel type | Microkernel |
License | MIT License[2] |
Official website | www |
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]
statusreport
was invoked but never defined (see the help page).