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  1. Newsgroups: comp.object
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!enterpoop.mit.edu!world!sss
  3. From: sss@world.std.com (Sergiu S Simmel)
  4. Subject: Info on Kala now available via Anonymous FTP
  5. Message-ID: <SSS.93Jan2175742@world.std.com>
  6. Sender: sss@world.std.com (Sergiu S Simmel)
  7. Organization: Penobscot Development Corporation, Arlington MA
  8. Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 22:57:42 GMT
  9. Lines: 205
  10.  
  11.  
  12. ==========================================================================
  13.  
  14.                   Penobscot Development Corporation
  15.                               Announces
  16.       Availability of Kala documents and Kala Forum back issues
  17.                        via ftp for public use.
  18.   Kala is a Persistent Data Server commercially available from PDC.
  19.  
  20. --------------------------------------------------------------------------
  21. All materials are Copyrighted by Penobscot Development Corporation.
  22. Their use is restricted to inspection and internal distribution only.
  23. ==========================================================================
  24.  
  25.  
  26. Kala Forum digests (back issues) and other miscellaneous Kala
  27. documents are now available through ftp from 
  28.  
  29.                             =============
  30.                             world.std.com
  31.                             =============
  32.  
  33. To connect to this ftp site, type the following at your Unix shell
  34. prompt:
  35.  
  36.     % ftp world.std.com
  37.  
  38. or consult with your system administrator if you use any other means
  39. for accessing the network (such as BBSs, CompuServe, etc.).
  40.  
  41. If coming through a regular Unix connection, you should see something
  42. similar to the following:
  43.  
  44.     Connected to world.std.com
  45.     220 world FTP server (Version 6.12 Sat Nov 7 22:18:34 EST 1992) ready.
  46.     Name (world.std.com:your_name): anonymous
  47.  
  48. You must enter 'anonymous' at the Name: prompt. In response, you will
  49. see the following:
  50.  
  51.     331 Guest login ok, send e-mail address as password.
  52.     Password: 
  53.  
  54. Next, to be on the safe side, type at the ftp> prompt:
  55.  
  56.     ftp> bin
  57.  
  58. On the world.std.com computer, the publicly accessible Kala documents
  59. are located in the pub/kala directory. Change your current working
  60. directory to it using:
  61.  
  62.     ftp> cd pub/kala
  63.  
  64. The Kala public materials are organized into the following few
  65. subdirectories:
  66.  
  67.     pub/kala
  68.             /KalaForum          -- contains all back issues of the
  69.                                    Kala Forum digests
  70.             /Articles           -- contains preliminary versions of
  71.                                    articles published elsewhere
  72.             /ShortDocuments     -- contains various technical and
  73.                                    business documents about Kala
  74.  
  75. To get at any of these directories, just type 'cd directory-name' at
  76. the ftp> prompt. To list the files in the directory you're in, just
  77. type 'ls' at the ftp> prompt. To download any of the files, type:
  78.  
  79.     ftp> get filename
  80.  
  81. To exit ftp, type 'quit' at the ftp> prompt.
  82.  
  83. All Kala Forum issues are in ASCII text only. Other documents have
  84. names ending in '.txt' to indicated that they are in ASCII text format
  85. or '.ps' for PostScript format (other formats later).
  86.  
  87. Please let us know if you have any problems. Enjoy!
  88.  
  89.  
  90.  
  91. ==============================================================================
  92.  
  93.                            The Kala Archive
  94.  
  95.                           Table of Contents
  96.  
  97. ==============================================================================
  98.  
  99. .txt = formatted ASCII text file; .ps = PostScript file;
  100.  
  101. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  102.  
  103.  
  104. ~ftp/pub/kala                 -- the root of the Kala Archive
  105.  
  106.  
  107. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  108.  
  109.    .../Articles               -- electronic versions of articles on Kala
  110.                                  published in other paper-based publications
  111.  
  112.                /Byte9212.txt  -- "Objects of Substance", BYTE, Volume 17,
  113.                                  Number 14, pp.130-133, December 1992.
  114.                /Hoot9208.txt  -- "ODBMS -- Providing Commonalty While
  115.                                  Supporting Diversity", Hotline on Object
  116.                                  Oriented Technology, Volume 3, Number 10,
  117.                                  pp.14-17, August 1992.
  118.                /Hoot9302.txt  -- "Kala Licensing & Metering -- Infrastructure
  119.                                  for a New Economics of Software", Volume 4, 
  120.                                  Number 5, February 1993.
  121.                /OOPSLA92.ps   -- "The Kala Basket", Proceedings of OOPSLA'91,
  122.                                  pp.230-246, October 1991.
  123.  
  124. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  125.  
  126.    .../KalaForum              -- the archive of the Kala Forum -- the infor-
  127.                                  mation exchange service on Kala and persis-
  128.                                  tent data servers (see separate TOC in that
  129.                                  directory)
  130.  
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  132.  
  133.    .../TechDocs               -- short documents on various Kala technical
  134.                                  topics
  135.  
  136.          /AppNote01-SimpleTransactions.txt   -- AppNote showing how you can
  137.                                                 implement a simple trans-
  138.                                                 action model in less than 1
  139.                                                 page of Kala code.
  140.          /HowTo01-CreateMonads.txt           -- A memorandum explaining how
  141.                                                 to create layout functions
  142.                                                 around your applications
  143.                                                 data for packaging in Kala
  144.                                                 monads.
  145.          /InDepth01-ModelIndependence.txt    -- Brief discussion on Kala's
  146.                                                 independence of any specific
  147.                                                 data or object models.
  148.          /InDepth02-Transactions.txt         -- Brief discussion on Kala's
  149.                                                 support for arbitrary
  150.                                                 transactions models.
  151.          /InDepth03-NestedTactions.txt       -- Brief discussion on Kala's
  152.                                                 natural support for nesting
  153.                                                 transactions
  154.          /InDepth04-Recoverability.txt       -- Brief discussion on Kala's
  155.                                                 ability to recover from any
  156.                                                 crash, save media failure.
  157.          /InDepth05-Performance.txt          -- Brief discussion on Kala's
  158.                                                 performance-oriented imple-
  159.                                                 mentation and results.
  160.          /InDepth06-Security.txt             -- Brief discussion on Kala's
  161.                                                 secure implementation and
  162.                                                 support for security models.
  163.          /InDepth07-SharedData.txt           -- Brief discussion on Kala's
  164.                                                 support for sharing of data.
  165.          /InDepth08-Licensing.txt            -- Brief discussion on Kala's
  166.                                                 support for arbitrary licen-
  167.                                                 sing (pay-per-copy) and
  168.                                                 metering (pay-per-use) models.
  169.          /InDepth09-SchemaEvolution.txt      -- Brief discussions on the re-
  170.                                                 lationship between Kala and
  171.                                                 the problem of schema evolu-
  172.                                                 tion in databases.
  173.          /OMG_OS_RFI_response.txt            -- A Response to OMG's Request
  174.                                                 for Information on Object
  175.                                                 Services.
  176.          /TechBrief.txt                      -- A 2-page Technical Brief of
  177.                                                 Kala.
  178.  
  179. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  180.  
  181.    .../BsnsDocs               -- documents describing various business
  182.                                  related aspects around the Kala product:
  183.  
  184.          /Echo05-Shinji.txt                  -- A reference letter from Dr.
  185.                                                 Shinji Suzuki of University
  186.                                                 of Tokyo.
  187.          /Echo06-Meyer.txt                   -- A reference letter from 
  188.                                                 Thomas Meyer of EDS.
  189.          /PricingSun.txt                     -- Pricing and Ordering info
  190.                                                 for SPARCstation/SunOS.
  191.          /PricingDos.txt                     -- Pricing and Ordering info
  192.                                                 for i80x86/MS-DOS.
  193.          /PricingNRE.txt                     -- PDC's NRE and Consulting
  194.                                                 rates and terms.
  195.          /ResearchProgramme.txt              -- Discounts and Terms for
  196.                                                 Research institutions.
  197.  
  198.  
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  203.  
  204.  
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  210.      \\'   \'   \'   \'  '----'  \'   \'      \\\\  No less than you want !!!
  211.       ........................................................................
  212.       Penobscot Development Corp. 50 Princeton Road Arlington Mass. 02174-8253
  213.        voice: +1-617-646-3951  fax: +1-617-646-5753  email: kala@world.std.com
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