On 3/28/2024 12:47 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
On Thu, Mar 28, 2024, 5:37 PM Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org <mailto:cctalk@classiccmp.org>> wrote:I know this is a real long shot but is there any chance someone has a copy of the original distribution of the Amoeba OS from the University in the Netherlands? Searching the web finds only the current version which runs on X86. I am looking for the original which also ran on Sparc and (of the most interest to me) the VAX.https://github.com/OSPreservProject/amoeba <https://github.com/OSPreservProject/amoeba> has the sun binaries but not the vax/mips binaries.
That's the current version. I am surprised they have Sun but I also expect it is not the Suns from the original which were Sun 3 and Sparc pizza boxes. We used the Sparc version at the University of Scranton. Some Grad students did research and their thesis on Amoeba. We had a whole lab dedicated to it and it was really cool. I have a nice stack of Vaxstation 3100's sitting around and now that you can no longer get hobbyist licenses for VMS I thought it might be fun to create an Amoeba Cluster. If any like minded people popped up it might be fun to try and build a really large and widely separated cluster just to see if it would have been possible. bill
