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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 […]
Granularity of Locks in a Shared Data Base
Granularity of locks in a shared data base, Jim N. Gray, Raymond A. Lorie, Gianfranco R. Putzolu, in Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, pp. 428-451. ACM, 1975. I was originally going to do a write-up of A Client-Based Transaction System to Maintain Data Integrity but realized that I should help motivate the […]
The Cap File System
The Cap Filing System R. M. Needham and A.D. Birrell, Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, 1977, Association for Computing Machinery. I’ve fallen behind this past ten days, working towards a deadline. My own conference paper is now submitted and I’m working on recovering. What that means is this week is going to be a busy […]
Shanghai Bound!
I’m on my way to the the Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, which is a well-known operating systems conference. This time it is in Shanghai, China so I’m making my way there. I do not have the privilege of presenting anything there this trip, but hopefully I will be able to do so in the […]
Decision Made
The decision deadline was last weekend and I confirmed my decision, accepting one of the offers and declining the other. I’m excited that I’ll be starting my new program officially near the end of summer. I’m already starting to think about the fact that this journey is really about to begin. I’d be lying if […]
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