A Butler process for resource sharing on Spice machines
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) - The MIT Press scientific computation series
Primitives for Distributed Computing in a Heterogeneous Local Area Network Environment
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A communication-oriented approach to structuring the software maintenance environment
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
A network operating system for microcomputers
Computer Communications
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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.