VSTa

Valencia's Simple Tasker (VSTa) is an operating system with a microkernel architecture, with all device drivers and file systems residing in userspace mode. It mostly complies with the Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), except where such compliance interferes with extensibility and modularity. It is conceptually inspired by QNX and Plan 9 from Bell Labs. Written by Andy Valencia, and released under a GNU General Public License (GPL). As of 2020, the licensing for VSTa is Copyleft.

VSTa

Developer	Andy Valencia
OS family	Unix-like
Working state	Discontinued
Source model	Open-source
Final release	1.6.8 / October 5, 2004; 20 years ago (2004-10-05)
Available in	English
Update method	Compile from source code
Platforms	Intel 80386, Motorola 68030
Kernel type	Microkernel
Default user interface	Graphical user interface
License	GNU General Public License
Official website	www.vsta.org

It was originally written to run on Intel 80386 hardware, and then was ported to several different platforms, e.g., Motorola 68030 based Amigas.

VSTa is no longer developed. A fork, named Flexible Microkernel Infrastructure/Operating System (FMI/OS), did not make a release.^[1]

User interface

The default graphical user interface provided as a tar-ball with the system was ManaGeR (MGR).