distributed computing system / large systems / voluntary trade using client/server communications protocols / software resource management process / server-oriented systems / object systems / database server / distribution solutions / modularity tools / bank account / software agents / client/server systems / distributed object systems / actual server / singlemachine systems / bank / retail / real-time applications / insecure communications / well-defined protocols / communication protocol / Resource management / communications abstractions / open systems / realtime applications / computing / long-lived systems / disk server / media failure / trust management / network software / large and complex systems / request-handling server / composite server / agoric resource management / using other well-defined protocols / /
OperatingSystem
UNIX / /
Person
Frederick Brooks / /
Position
replication manager / manager / disk-arm scheduler / a disk cache manager / and a device controller / programmer / /
Product
Joule / /
ProgrammingLanguage
Simula / Lisp / Smalltalk / C / C++ / /
Technology
object-oriented programming / well-defined protocol / well-defined protocols / UNIX / voluntary trade using client/server communications protocols / disk drive / communication protocol / 3D graphics / Caching / virtual memory / operating system / operating systems / client/server / disk cache / /
1.Foundations This chapter presents the intellectual foundations for Joule: first, a brief synopsis of the history of programming languages, with emphasis on characteristics relative to distributed systems and Joule; se