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EDMAS: A locally distributed mail system

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Guy Almes,

Andrew Black,

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ICSE '84: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Software engineering

Pages 56 - 66

Published: 26 March 1984 Publication History

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The Eden Project is a five-year effort to design, build and test operating system structures for local area networks. A specific goal is to allow users to obtain the advantages of both physical distribution and logical integration. Since Eden is physically distributed, its users can take advantage of personal workstations. Since Eden is logically integrated, system resources can be named and accessed in a location independent way.

Edmas, the Eden mail system, was designed to be an early test of Eden's usefulness. This paper describes the design and implementation of Edmas, and presents several of the lessons we have learned about constructing location independent services and about the design of mail systems.

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Black AHutchinson NJul ELevy H(1986)Object structure in the Emerald systemACM SIGPLAN Notices10.1145/960112.2870621:11(78-86)Online publication date: 1-Jun-1986
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Black AHutchinson NJul ELevy H(1986)Object structure in the Emerald systemConference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications10.1145/28697.28706(78-86)Online publication date: 1-Jun-1986
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/28697.28706
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Black A(1985)Supporting distributed applicationsACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review10.1145/323627.32364619:5(181-193)Online publication date: 1-Dec-1985
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