Re: Anyone have info on pulse?

[gerry@cheviot.newcastle.ac.uk (Gerry Tomlinson)]

The PULSE project was carried out during the period
1979-84 by a small group of researchers at the University
of York in the UK with support from the Science
and Engineering Research Council of Great Britain.
It produced and evaluated a prototype distributed operating system running on 
two LSI/11-23 based personal computers connected by a Cambridge Ring. The system was written almost entirely in Ada using the York
Ada compiler (cross-compiling from a VAX) which was being developed concurrently.

The project is now finished and the results have been
published in the following papers etc:

%T A Problem with Ada and Resource Allocation
%A A. J. Wellings
%A D. Keeffe
%A G. M. Tomlinson
%J Ada Letters
%V 3
%N 4
%D January/February 1984

%T The PULSE Distributed File System
%A G. M. Tomlinson
%A D. Keeffe
%A I. C. Wand
%A A. J. Wellings
%R
%I Software Practice and Experience
%V 15
%N 11
%D November 1985
%P 1087-1101

%T Aspects of Portability of the UNIX Shell
%A D. Keeffe
%A G. M. Tomlinson
%A I.C. Wand
%A A. J. Wellings
%J IEE Proceedings-E, Computer and Digital Techniques
%V 132
%N 5
%P 257-264
%D September 1985

%T Communication Between Ada Programs
%A A. J. Wellings
%A G. M. Tomlinson
%A D. Keeffe
%A I. C. Wand
%J Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Ada Applications and Environments
%P 145-152
%C 
%D October 1984


%T The Use of Ada Tasking in the Implementation of a Distributed Operating System
%A A.J. Wellings
%J Ada UK News
%V 6
%N 3
%P 53-60
%D 1985

%T PULSE: An Ada-based Distributed Operating System
%A D. Keeffe
%A G. M. Tomlinson
%A I. C. Wand
%A A. J. Wellings
%E 
%I APIC Studies in Data Processing Series, Academic Press 
%C
%D 1985

The book attempts to bring together in one place all that was learned
from the project.

Andy Wellings and Ian Wand are  at 
Department of Computer Science,
University of York,
York,
UK
Tel: +44-904-430000

e-mail:  andy@uk.ac.york.novice and icw@minster.york.ac.uk
 
David Keeffe is  at Siemens UK; e-mail dk%siesoft@sysdes.co.uk

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