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From: mauney@ncsu.UUCP (Jon Mauney)
Newsgroups: net.mag
Subject: IEEE Software, May 1985
Message-ID: <2887@ncsu.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 8-Jul-85 11:19:02 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul  8 11:19:02 1985
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%A Neil Gammage
%A Liam Casey
%T XMS: a rendezvous-based distributed system software architecture
%J IEEE Software
%V 2
%N 3
%P 9-19
%D MAY 1985
%X XMS creates a single, powerful system from loosely-coupled microcomputers.
Programs work together across nodes, making systemwide resource mangagement 
transparent and distributed system design simpler 

%A Marek Fridrich
%A William Older
%T Helix: the architecture of the XMS distributed file system
%J IEEE Software
%V 2
%N 3
%P 21-29 
%D MAY 1985
%X With abstraction layering and system decomposition, all the user sees is
one homogeneous system.  Behind the scene, the architecture is supporting 15 
LANs and close to 1000 workstations 

%A Eric J. Berglund
%A David R. Cheriton
%T Amaze: a multiplayer computer game
%J IEEE Software
%V 2
%N 3
%P 30-39 
%D MAY 1985
%X Amaze relies solely on the V kernel for point-to-point communication.
The game's techniques could work in a general class of distributed applications 

%A Thomas J. LeBlanc
%A Robert P. Cook
%T High-level broadcast communication for local area networks
%J IEEE Software
%V 2
%N 3
%P 40-48 
%D MAY 1985
%X Even for LANs without broadcast-supporting hardware, this program offers
improvements of from 1.1 to 7.8 over point-to-point message transmission--
and that's the worst-case gain. 

%A Ariel J. Frank
%A Larry D. Wittie
%A Arthur J. Bernstein
%T Multicast communication on network computers
%J IEEE Software
%V 2
%N 3
%P 49-61 
%D MAY 1985
%X Channel-oriented packet casting is a predominat feature of Micros, an
operating system designed to explore control and communication techniques 
for netcomputers with thousands of hosts. 

%A Mark C. Paulk
%T The ARC network: a case study
%J IEEE Software
%V 2
%N 3
%P 62-69 
%D MAY 1985
%X Designed around VAX and devleoped for ballistic missile defense systems,
this network offers error-free message passing and can absorb overhead 
unacceptable to general-purpose networks. 

%A Robert J. Douglass
%T A qualitative assessment of parallelism in expert systems
%J IEEE Software
%V 2
%N 3
%P 70-81 
%D MAY 1985
%X Developers envision epxert systems than can make up to one billion
inferences per second.  This will require full utilization of a system's
potential for parallel processing.

%A Sanjai Narain
%T Mycin: the expert system and its implementation in Loglisp
%J IEEE Software
%V 2
%N 3
%P 83-88 
%D MAY 1985
%X A translation of Mycin, an expert system used in medical consultations,
in to Loglisp, a logic programming system, is comparable in terms of clarity 
speed, and space requirements. 

-- 

Jon Mauney,    mcnc!ncsu!mauney
North Carolina State University