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The National Software Works: A distributed processing system

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ACM Annual Conference/Annual Meeting archive
Proceedings of the 1977 annual conference table of contents

Pages: 44 - 52

Year of Publication: 1977

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Robert E. Millstein

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ACM: Association for Computing Machinery

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

The National Software Works (NSW) is a significant new step in the development of distributed processing systems and computer networks. NSW is an ambitious project to link a set of geographically distributed and diverse hosts with an operating system which appears as a single entity to a prospective user. An initial version of NSW spanning TENEX, MULTICS, and IBM 360 computers has been in regular operation since May 1977. Further enhancement of this system to provide better reliability, improved response time, expanded facilities, and additional host computers is currently under way. In the next section we describe the purpose of NSW and the problem that led to its creation. The following sections give a simplified overview of NSW system design and finally describe the individual components which comprise NSW.

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	1	Boehm, B. Software and Its Impact: A Quantitative Assessment. Datamation, May 1973, pp. 48-59.
	2	Shapiro, R.M., and Millstein, R.E. NSW Reliability Plan. Massachusetts Computer Associates, Inc., CA-7701-1411,* June 10, 1977.
	3	NSW Protocol Committee. MSG: The Interprocess Communication Facility for the National Software Works. Massachusetts Computer Associates, Inc., CADD-7612-2411 and Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc., 3237, December 24, 1976.
	4	Schantz, R.E., and Millstein, R.E. The Foreman: Providing the Program Execution Environment for the National Software Works. Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc., 3442, and Massachusetts Computer Associates, Inc., CADD-7701-1111, January 1, 1977.
	5	Millstein, R.E., and Schantz, R.E. NSW Tool Builder's Guide. Massachusetts Computer Associates, Inc., CADD-7702-1811, and Bolt Beranek and Newman, Inc., 3308, February 18, 1977.
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