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Amoeba

distributed operation system for timesharing on a network, developed at the 'Vrije' University in Amsterdam
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Amoeba

Summary

Amoeba is a distributed operating system[1]. Amoeba draws 55 Wikipedia views per month (distributed_operating_system category, ranking #5 of 6).[2]

Key Facts

  • Amoeba's instance of is recorded as distributed operating system[3].
  • Amoeba's developer is recorded as Andrew S. Tanenbaum[4].
  • Amoeba's copyright license is recorded as MIT License[5].
  • Amoeba's software version identifier is recorded as 5.3[6].
  • +1981-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Amoeba[7].
  • Amoeba's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/028vkk[8].
  • Amoeba's official website is recorded as http://www.cs.vu.nl/pub/amoeba/[9].
  • Amoeba's different from is recorded as Amoeba[10].
  • Amoeba's Quora topic ID is recorded as Amoeba-operating-system[11].
  • Amoeba's copyright status is recorded as copyrighted[12].
  • Amoeba's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 87847054[13].

Why It Matters

Amoeba draws 55 Wikipedia views per month (distributed_operating_system category, ranking #5 of 6).[2] Amoeba has Wikipedia articles in 17 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] Amoeba is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

Related Entities

Andrew S. Tanenbaum distributed operating system

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . cs.vu.nl. cs.vu.nl. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . cs.vu.nl. cs.vu.nl. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . cs.vu.nl. cs.vu.nl. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . Quora. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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