Historical Perspective--Linda

• Original model of virtual spaces of tuples

• Created in early 1980’s

• Added transactions, queries, fault-tolerance in early/mid 1990’s

• Java adds:

  • strongly typed fields in tuples
  • objects--not data stored in spaces
  • match object type as well as fields
  • leases
  • atomic actions across multiple spaces

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