Libes, D.
(1990),
NIST Network Common Memory User Manual, NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=821310
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NIST Network Common Memory User Manual
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This manual describes how to use the NIST Network Common Memory Systems (CMS), version 7. The CMS provides a common memory that may be shared among processes distributed across a local area network. Unlike other shared memory systems, CMS accesses variables by name rather than by address. These and other features make the systems more comparable to a primitive distributed database than a shared memory systems. CMS currently runs on Berkley UNIX systems but can be supported on any POSIX-like systems which provides a stream protocol at the transport layer. Interfaces exist for usage from C and Franz Lisp.Citation
NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR) - 4233
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4233
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CMS, LAN, local area network, programs, systems
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Created October 1, 1990, Updated October 16, 2008