VSTa

{{Short description|Operating system}}

{{Notability|date=April 2020}}

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| name = VSTa

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| developer = Andy Valencia

| family = Unix-like

| working state = Discontinued

| source model = Open-source

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| discontinued = Yes

| latest release version = 1.6.8

| latest release date = {{Start date and age|2004|10|05}}

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| language = English

| update model = Compile from source code

| supported platforms = Intel 80386, Motorola 68030

| kernel type = Microkernel

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| ui = Graphical user interface

| license = GNU General Public License

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| website = {{URL|www.vsta.org}}

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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.

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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.code-unatio.net/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723045756/http://www.code-unatio.net/|url-status=dead|archive-date=2011-07-23|title=Code Unatio|date=2011-07-23|access-date=2017-06-16}}