Decentralized Computing Technology for Fault-Tolerant, Survivable C3I Systems.Volume 3. System/Subsystem Specification

摘要

Alpha is an operating system for the mission critical integration and operationof large, complex, distributed, real time systems. Such systems are becoming increasingly common in both military (e.g., BM/C3, combat platform management) and industrial factory and plant automation (e.g., automobile manufacturing) contexts. They differ substantially from the better-known timesharing systems, numerically-oriented supercomputers, and networks of personal workstations. More surprisingly, they also depart significantly from traditional real time systems, which are predominantly for low-level periodic sampled data monitoring and control.