AmoebaOS, a new "webos" with mail clients, ftp, proxying, etc

Fun facts about the Amoeba project, started by Andrew Tanenbaum, worked on by several graduate students including one named Guido Van Rossum who used it as a test bed for a programming language he was developing.

Re: AmoebaOS, a new "webos" with mail clients, ftp, proxying, etc

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Post by rbanffy » Mon, Oct 05, 2009, 8:07 AM UTC

olefoo wrote: post #4

For a few fractions of a second I had hopes that someone was reviving and opening up the Amoeba project. http://www.cs.vu.nl/pub/amoeba/amoeba.html Fun facts about the Amoeba project, started by Andrew Tanenbaum, worked on by several graduate students including one named Guido Van Rossum who used it as a test bed for a programming language he was developing.

You do realize there will be a point in time we will run out of attractive names for operating systems.

Re: AmoebaOS, a new "webos" with mail clients, ftp, proxying, etc

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Post by agazso » Mon, Oct 05, 2009, 1:40 PM UTC

madaerodog wrote: post #3

so you need an os and a browser to run this webos .. kinda defeats the purpose if you ask me ...

I actually quite amused by the following statement: "Imagine being able to boot up your Operating System in 3 seconds"

That is, after you booted up your real operating system.

Re: AmoebaOS, a new "webos" with mail clients, ftp, proxying, etc

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Post by madaerodog » Mon, Oct 05, 2009, 2:36 PM UTC

agazso wrote: post #6

madaerodog wrote: post #3

so you need an os and a browser to run this webos .. kinda defeats the purpose if you ask me ...

I actually quite amused by the following statement: "Imagine being able to boot up your Operating System in 3 seconds" That is, after you booted up your real operating system.

I think they can do better! They should push it and go where no man has been and load their webos under a second .. (like most of the websites .... grin )