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- ISIS - A Reliable Distributed Programming Toolkit [1 February 1986]
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- DESCRIPTION
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- The ISIS Distributed Programming Toolkit provides C and Fortran and
- Lisp programmers with tools for developing reliable distributed
- applications. ISIS implements a simple yet powerful model of
- distributed computation called 'virtual synchrony' in which complex
- distributed events appear to occur one-at-a-time, in synchrony. In
- reality many events are happening concurrently, exploiting the
- parallelism of the distributed computing environment.
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- ISIS consists of language libraries and utility software which uses the
- TCP/IP, UDP protocols by default, and can be extended to use other
- protocols (on MACH systems, ISIS uses MACH IPC for intra-machine
- message passing by default). ISIS is available on a wide range of
- Unix-compatible computers. The ISIS toolkit is in the public domain.
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