November 1996 / Core Technologies

VMS: Alive and Well A VMS Time Line In Case of Emergency, Use Duplicate Clusters A Fault-Tolerant Cluster	Better reasons than tradition explain why Digital's VMS operating system continues to survive. - by Ben Smith
A File System for the Web An NFS Session A WebNFS Session	Sun's revised NFS could overcome HTTP's limitations in handling large amounts of Web data. - by Bob Friesenhahn
The Consumer PowerPC Revisited The MPC801 Architecture An Example of an ATM Application	Motorola's embedded PowerPC processor offers a rich set of communications features. - by Tom Thompson
Parallel Processing in Bulk Supersteps Toward Synchronization Programming with BSP BSP Code Fragment	A new programming model for parallel processing simplifies writing programs and promises code portability. - by Dick Pountain

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