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From: kmeyer@wrl.dec.com (Kraig Meyer)
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Subject: Re: What is VMTP?
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Date: 30 May 90 16:35:44 GMT
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In article <12637@netcom.UUCP> hinton@netcom.UUCP (Greg Hinton) writes:
||I've read bits & pieces about something called VMTP.  From what I've seen,
||it appears to be a reliable counterpart of UDP.
||Can someone explain in more depth exactly what VMTP is and/or provide
||easily available references?
||Are there any implementations under UNIX?

VMTP was developed as a transport protocol for the V distributed system
at Stanford.  Try "VMTP as the Transport Layer for High-Performance
Distributed Systems" by David Cheriton and Carey Williamson, IEEE
Communications Magazine, June 1989, p. 37.

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Kraig Meyer                        kraig@wrl.dec.com
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