Amoeba 5.0 Distributed OS available (FREE to universities)

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From: Andy Tanenbaum
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 11:57

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	    AMOEBA 5.0 IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR FREE TO UNIVERSITIES

The Amoeba Distributed Operating System version 5.0 is now available FOR
FREE to universities for the Sun 3/60 and ISA-bus 386 and 486-based PCs.  It
is also available to corporate and government customers (with full support from
an experienced software company, ACE) for a competitive commercial price.

An introduction to Amoeba, a dozen published papers on it, 1000 pages of 
documention, a description of the required hardware, and information on how
to get Amoeba are available by anonymous FTP from the following sites.

        Europe:    ftp.cs.vu.nl      (192.31.231.42)     directory: amoeba
        USA:       ftp.cse.ucsc.edu  (128.114.134.19)    directory: pub/amoeba

PLEASE FETCH AND READ THE 'README' AND 'INTRO.PS.Z' FILES BEFORE ASKING ANY
QUESTIONS.  WE HAVE TRIED TO ANSWER THE MOST COMMON QUESTIONS THERE.

Although Amoeba is free to universities, we still require a license that 
restricts usage to education and research, and absolves us of legal liability.
This makes our lawyers much happier.  Information on how to get the license
is contained in the 'Intro' document available by FTP from the above sites.
After the license has been properly signed and sent back to us, we will send
an FTP password (free) or tapes ($500 for Exabyte, $800 for QIC-24).

Briefly summarized, Amoeba's key features are as follows:
  - Transparent distributed and parallel computing using a large number of CPUs
  - Microkernel + server architecture
  - High-performance RPC and totally-ordered reliable group communication
  - Support for heterogeneous systems (e.g., Sun-3 and 386 on the same net)
  - File and directory servers provided (including automatic file replication)
  - X windows, release 5 and TCP/IP supported
  - ANSI C, Pascal, FORTRAN 77, Modula 2 and Orca compilers provided
  - Partial UNIX system call emulation, plus over 100 UNIX-like utilities
  - Full source code available free to universities; no AT&T license required

People without FTP access should contact me by email to get the 'Intro' file.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)

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