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CHORUS ™ is a portable, open, message-based, distributed operating system. Since 1980, start time of the CHORUS project at INRIA, several versions of the system have been designed and implemented. The current version, CHORUS-V2, offers a full UNIX ™ compatibility at the user level, while providing control of distribution by relying on a powerful IPC facility, based on ports and messages, as the heart of its architecture.
This paper first includes an overview of the CHORUS system, and second discusses some issues of our work: ports and port groups, IPC, naming and binding, and distributed execution control.
the authors list ordering reflects the responsibility engaged during the CHORUS presentation at the NATO ASI.
José Legatheaux Martins is with the Computer Science Departement of Universidade Nova de Lisboa — Quinta da Torre, 2825 MONTE da CAPARICA, Portugal — he is currently on leave at INRIA. Its leave has been partially supported by the Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon.
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Rozier, M., Martins, J.L. (1987). The CHORUS Distributed Operating System: Some Design Issues. In: Paker, Y., Banatre, JP., Bozyiğit, M. (eds) Distributed Operating Systems. NATO ASI Series, vol 28. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-46604-5_10
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