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ISIS - A Reliable Distributed Programming Toolkit [1 February 1986]
DESCRIPTION
The ISIS Distributed Programming Toolkit provides C and Fortran and
Lisp programmers with tools for developing reliable distributed
applications. ISIS implements a simple yet powerful model of
distributed computation called 'virtual synchrony' in which complex
distributed events appear to occur one-at-a-time, in synchrony. In
reality many events are happening concurrently, exploiting the
parallelism of the distributed computing environment.
ISIS consists of language libraries and utility software which uses the
TCP/IP, UDP protocols by default, and can be extended to use other
protocols (on MACH systems, ISIS uses MACH IPC for intra-machine
message passing by default). ISIS is available on a wide range of
Unix-compatible computers. The ISIS toolkit is in the public domain.