A NonStop kernel
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems ReviewPublished 1 December 1981
Joel F. Bartlett
Citations249
SJR quartileQ3
SJR score0.32
SNIP0.48
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The Tandem NonStop System is a fault-tolerant [1], expandable, and distributed computer system designed expressly for online transaction processing. This paper describes the key primitives of the kernel of the operating system. The first section describes the basic hardware building blocks and introduces their software analogs: processes and messages. Using these primitives, a mechanism that allows fault-tolerant resource access, the process-pair, is described. The paper concludes with some observations on this type of system structure and on actual use of the system.
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