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From: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi)
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Subject: Re: OSs supporting checkpointing: looking for examples.
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"vic" == Vicraj T. Thomas writes:

vic> I am looking for examples of "traditional" operating systems (i.e.
vic> centralized OSs) that allowed user processes to periodically
vic> checkpoint their state so that, in case of a failure and subsequent
vic> recovery, they could be restarted from the last checkpoint.

EXEC-8, later renamed OS 1100, the os for the Univac, later Sperry,
later UNISYS 1100 36 bit machines. Its facility is quite comprehensive
and well thought out.
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