Beyond UNIX: A True Distributed System for the 1990s

摘要

UNIX has been around now for almost 20 years. At the time UNIX began, most departments felt themselves well-endowed indeed if they owned a single PDP-11/45 with 256K memory and a 2.5M RK05 disk. Nowadays a laptop would be embarrassed to have only that. It is the hypothesis that UNIX is no longer the appropriate kind of operating system for the 1990s. In the paper, a new system, Amoeba, will be described, that is believed to meet the requirements for distributed computing in the 1990s.