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  1. Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!gossip.pyramid.com!decwrl!deccrl!news.crl.dec.com!rdg.dec.com!uvo.dec.com!tplab.enet.dec.com!sobczak
  3. From: sobczak@tplab.enet.dec.com (Piotr Sobczak)
  4. Subject: Re: Transactions In OSs
  5. Message-ID: <1992Sep10.162904.12439@decuk.uvo.dec.com>
  6. Lines: 36
  7. Sender: usenet@decuk.uvo.dec.com (News Account)
  8. Reply-To: sobczak@tplab.enet.dec.com (Piotr Sobczak)
  9. Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
  10. References:  <1992Sep8.232718.15295@fawlty.towers.oz.au>
  11. Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 16:29:04 GMT
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  14. In article <1992Sep8.232718.15295@fawlty.towers.oz.au>, johnmac@fawlty.towers.oz.au (John MacLean) writes:
  15. |> Newsgroups: comp.databases.theory
  16. |> Path: uvo.dec.com!rdg.dec.com!news.crl.dec.com!deccrl!caen!uunet!munnari.oz.au!metro!ipso!fawlty!johnmac
  17. |> From: johnmac@fawlty.towers.oz.au (John MacLean)
  18. |> Subject: Transactions In OSs
  19. |> Organization: Tower Technology, Sydney
  20. |> Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1992 23:27:18 GMT
  21. |> Message-ID: <1992Sep8.232718.15295@fawlty.towers.oz.au>
  22. |> Sender: johnmac@fawlty.towers.oz.au (John MacLean)
  23. |> Lines: 16
  24. |> 
  25. |> Are there any operating systems (either commercial or research) that
  26. |> include transaction processing as part of the core operating system.
  27. |> 
  28. VAX/VMS includes DECdtm (Distributed Transaction Manager) as of V5.4
  29.  
  30. |> ie: Can you start a transaction, update two files, and then complete
  31. |> the transaction; with all the commit and rollback implications.
  32. |> 
  33. Yes
  34.