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From: sanjay@athena.mit.edu (Sanjay Ghemawat)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: Parallelism and OOPSs
Keywords: transactions
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Date: 5 Oct 89 17:17:26 GMT
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Summary:


You should look at the following paper on Argus, a variant of CLU for
programming transaction-based distributed systems. Argus supports
multiple threads and nested multi-site transactions.

"Distributed Programming in Argus" by Barbara Liskov
Communications of the ACM.
Volume 31, Number 3
March, 1988.
Pages 300-312

-Sanjay