Quote: Amoeba consists of workstations, pool processors for dynamic allocation, specialized servers, and wide-area network gateways

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The Amoeba architecture consists of four principal components. … can carry out editing and other tasks that … dynamically allocated as needed, used, and then returned … [e.g., allocate six processors from the pool to do six compilations]. Third are the specialized servers, such as directory, file, and … [etc] … Fourth are the wide-area network gateways, which are … system.   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: using wide-area network gateways, Amoeba forms a single, uniform system across possibly different countries

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