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From: rdthomps@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Robert D. Thompson)
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Subject: Re: Distributed/Asynchronous OO Software
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Date: 19 Dec 90 18:53:14 GMT
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In article <12323@hubcap.clemson.edu> decwrl!apple.com!motcsd!greek!lance@uunet.UU.NET writes:
>The tutorials on OO that I've read generally don't address parallel
>or distributed OO work, except for the SmallTalk doccos which specifically
>say that OO (or at least their OO) doesn't help with concurrent programming.
>
>Has there been any work in using OO messaging as the basis for distributed
>programming?  How far has this topic progressed?  Are there any designs
>publicly available for research purposes?  For network software?  For
>parallel computing?  Has anyone cooked up an RPC-like system where you
>specify an asychronous (RPC is synchronous) OO messaging protocol and it 
>generates software stubs for you to fill in?  Are there any debuggers available?

	How about "ACTORS: A Model for Distributed Applications..."

	The title is something like that, someone may want to follow
	up with the ISBN, etc...

	I remember glancing at the book...it is largely based on
	mail-queueing etc...

	Again, someone may want to follow up with details.

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Robert D. Thompson
rdthomps@vela.acs.oakland.edu