Experiences with the Amoeba distributed operating system

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 1990, Pages 46-63

  Tanenbaum, Andrew S ^a   van Renesse, Robbert ^a   van Staveren, Hans ^a   Sharp, Gregory J ^a   Mullender, Sape J ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b CWI   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS - WIDE AREA NETWORKS; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING - OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS;

AMOEBA DISTRIBUTED OPERATING SYSTEM;

COMPUTER OPERATING SYSTEMS;

EID: 0025568729     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/96267.96281     Document Type: Article

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