thomo@cs.uq.oz.au (John Thomas) (06/17/91)
I am currently undertaking a distributed computing subject and next semester
have to present a seminar on the ARGUS distributed programming language.
As such, any references, material etc regarding ARGUS would be appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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Argus is more of a programming language and system than a distributed OS. It is a language for writing reliable distributed programs, which means that it has something of the flavor of an operating system in its concern for integrity, concurrency, and communication. It is still in limited use at MIT -- we are currently planning to use it to build a prototype distributed object repository. It runs on Vaxes with 4.3BSD (and one teeny kernel hack), and is not very portable; because of limited staff, we have no plans (yet...) to make the changes necessary to export it. The following references are probably the most useful for understanding the system and its implementation (as opposed to applications or algorithms built on top of the system). I've listed them in chronological order: you may want to start from the bottom, since that's the retrospective article. --Mark Day mday@lcs.mit.edu -------------------- B. Liskov and R. Scheifler, "Guardians and Actions: Linguistic Support for Robust, Distributed Programs." ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems 5, 3 (July 1983), pp. 381-404. W. Weihl and B. Liskov, "Implementation of Resilient, Atomic Data Types." ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems 7, 2 (April 1985), pp. 244-269. B. Oki, B. Liskov, and R. Scheifler, "Reliable Object Storage to Support Atomic Actions." Proceedings of the 10th Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, 1985. B. Liskov et al., "Argus Reference Manual." MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Technical Report 400, November 1987. B. Liskov et al., "Implementation of Argus." Proceedings of the 11th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, November 1987, pp. 111-122. B. Liskov, "Distributed Programming in Argus." Comm. ACM 31, 3 (March 1988), pp. 300-312.