DISCO

Developed by:
Gesellschaft fźr Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung (GMD), FRG Irmtraut and Klaus D. Gźnther

Short Description:
The DISCO system is intended to support applications programmers and users of distributed office applications in an inhomogenous hardware and operating system environment. DISCO will provide automatic crash recovery; "rarely blocking" distributed transact ions; a terminal-independent, syntax-directed, forms-oriented terminal interface; and flexible facilities for re-routing and delegating sub-tasks of computer-aided office procedures. Inter-process communication is based on a largely unified transport serv ice interface. A major goal of the DISCO design has been to acheive a very high degree of portability of all system components and application programs.

Model: loosely-coupled, heterogenous
Properties: system-supported restart after crashes, electronic signatures
Transparency:
Running on:
Date: 1986

References:
Irmtraut and Klaus D. Gźnther: "DISCO: A Programming and Run-time Support System for Distributed Communication-Oriented Office Applications", North-Holland Vienna (Austria), COST 11ter Action, Proc. of the EUTECO'88 Conf., Commission of the European Commu nities, pp. 761Đ773, April 1988.

Klaus D. Gźnther: "DISCO-A Programming and Run Time Environment for Distributed Cooperative Office Applications", Proceedings of the ERCIM Workshops INESC, Lisabon, Portugal, Nov. 14Đ15, 1991.