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Experiences with the Amoeba Distributed Operating System
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2001
Classic Operating Systems
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The Amoeba distributed operating system has been in development and use for over eight years now. In this paper we describe the present system and our experience with it-what we did right, but also what we did wrong. Among the things done right were basing the system on objects, using a single uniform mechanism (capabilities) for naming and protecting them in a location independent way, and designing a completely new, and very fast file system. Among the things done wrong were having threads
doi:10.1007/978-1-4757-3510-9_25
fatcat:wr5ig5ncn5bnxnmys4sp7eng7q