Back in the '80s, I got tasked to implement a prototype distributed OS that a team at JPL had just spent all but a little less than a year of a 5 or 6 year DOD

Back in the '80s, I got tasked to implement a prototype distributed OS that a team at JPL had just spent all but a little less than a year of a 5 or 6 year DOD contract designing (with a bit more than 6 months to a big conference where it was supposed to be demoed). After I gave my estimate of what I could produce in the time remaining, the design team said that that was impossible. Modula-2 (embodied in a Logitech(!!) compiler and standard library) came through with flying colors. OS ran on 8 Vax 725's. Pull the plug on one running unique processes, they would restart on another. Ditto for splitting the net. [0] http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA124379 http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=ht...