On Jan 12, 2006, at 1:00 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to recommend the following article by Ken Birman
(probably
the grandad of process groups):
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=326136
Unfortunately you need to be a member of the acm to read it (I used
to be,
but right now I am not.) This article describes his experiences using
ISIS, an early process group library, to build some interesting
systems.
A quick search on scholar.google.com turned up a free version:
http://scholar.google.com/url?sa=U&q=http://historical.ncstrl.org/tr/
ps/cornellcs/TR99-1726.ps
You can also view it in HTML if you don't have a post script viewer
(it is built into Apple Preview), but the images don't show up:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?
num=100&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=cache:Fri1iJMdcxUJ:historical.ncstrl.org/
tr/ps/cornellcs/TR99-1726.ps+
-dain