Abstract
TransPive is a distributed Lisp system that originally ran on a Transputers network. The system simulates a shared object space, supporting remote pointers with a distributed object manager and a distributed Garbage Collector (GC). A future primitive, with an explicit touch operation, is provided to spawn remote tasks.
This paper presents a new version of TransPive, running on a TCP/IP network using PVM as the communication layer. This version supports a new causal ordering, a different object manager (based on causal broadcasts), a new GC, and a different implementation of the message-sending primitives.
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