The Cambridge File Server
The Cambridge File Server Jeremy Dixon, in ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review, Volume 14, Number 4, pp 26-35, 1980, ACM. Cambridge was certainly a hotbed of systems work in the 1970s (not to say that it still is not). They were looking at very different architectures and approaches to problems than we saw from the […]
WFS: A Simple Shared File System for a Distributed Environment
WFS: A Simple Shared File System for a Distributed Environment Daniel Swinehart, Gene McDaniel, and David Boggs, in Proceedings of the Seventh ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, pp. 9-17, 1979, ACM. This file system was developed at Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), which produced a string of amazing advances in the nascent computer technology […]
A Universal File Server
A Universal File Server A. D. Birrell and R. M. Needham, in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol SE-6, No. 5, September 1980, pp. 450-453. One of the challenges in this next group of papers is picking which ones to discuss. The advent of networks saw the blossoming of the idea of centralizing storage and having […]
Weighted Voting for Replicated Data
Weighted Voting for Replicated Data David K. Gifford, in Proceedings of the seventh ACM symposium on Operating systems principles, pp. 150-162, 1979. I return back to distributed systems. Previously I discussed a companion paper at the same conference (Polyvalues) that was essentially ignored in the subsequent literature. This paper, on the other hand, is well-cited and […]
As We May Think
As We May Think Vannevar Bush, The Atlantic, July 1945. I saw this covered by Adrian Colyer recently and unabashedly decided I needed to cover it as well, not because I thought there was anything wrong with his coverage but rather because this speaks well to my own research interests. As Colyer points out the concept of trails is […]
Polyvalues: A Tool for Implementing Atomic Updates to Distributed Data
Polyvalues: A Tool for Implementing Atomic Updates to Distributed Data Warren A. Montgomery, in Proceedings of the seventh ACM symposium on Operating systems principles, pp. 143-149. ACM, 1979. I found this paper to be surprisingly interesting despite the fact it may be one of the least cited SOSP papers I’ve ever seen (ACM lists one citation to […]
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