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Quote: Amoeba gives users illusion of a single timesharing system even though it is implemented on hundreds of processors

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Topic:
a single system image
Topic:
examples of distributed systems and applications

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The basic idea [of Amoeba] is to provide users … on a collection of machines, potentially distributed among … [p. 62] Only rarely will two processes happen to … of processors; therefore we have put a lot … difference [with systems such as Mach which optimize for multiple processes on the same machine].   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: Amoeba assumes the normal case is processes on different machines; optimizes for distributed system

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