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Horus: a flexible group communication system

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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 39 , Issue 4 (April 1996) table of contents

Pages: 76 - 83

Year of Publication: 1996

ISSN:0001-0782

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Robbert van Renesse	Senior research associate in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University
Kenneth P. Birman	Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University
Silvano Maffeis	Visiting scientist in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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