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ASK: a kernel for programming actor systems

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Michele Di Santo,

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SIGSMALL '90: Proceedings of the 1990 ACM SIGSMALL/PC symposium on Small systems

Pages 36 - 42

https://doi.org/10.1145/99412.99426

Published: 01 February 1990 Publication History

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In this paper, ASK, a kernel for programming actor systems under MS-DOS operating system, is presented. The kernel was designed to define and test a set of primitives based on the actor programming model and suitable to be implemented on parallel systems with physically distributed memory. ASK makes it possible to develop and test highly concurrent programs and to analyze their run-time behavior.

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Di Santo MIannello G(1991)Implementing actor-based primitives on distributed-memory architecturesACM SIGPLAN OOPS Messenger10.1145/127070.1270782:2(45-49)Online publication date: 1-Apr-1991
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/127070.127078
Di Santo MIannello GWilson P(1991)Implementing actor-based primitives on distributed-memory architecturesProceedings of the workshop on Object-based concurrent programming10.1145/127056.127078(45-49)Online publication date: 1-Apr-1991
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/127056.127078
Di Santo MRusso W(1991)The ensemble systemACM SIGPLAN Notices10.1145/122179.12219026:2(99-108)Online publication date: 2-Jan-1991
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/122179.122190

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DOI:10.1145/99412

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Di Santo MIannello G(1991)Implementing actor-based primitives on distributed-memory architecturesACM SIGPLAN OOPS Messenger10.1145/127070.1270782:2(45-49)Online publication date: 1-Apr-1991
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/127070.127078
Di Santo MIannello GWilson P(1991)Implementing actor-based primitives on distributed-memory architecturesProceedings of the workshop on Object-based concurrent programming10.1145/127056.127078(45-49)Online publication date: 1-Apr-1991
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/127056.127078
Di Santo MRusso W(1991)The ensemble systemACM SIGPLAN Notices10.1145/122179.12219026:2(99-108)Online publication date: 2-Jan-1991
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/122179.122190

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