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Amber(ID:1815/amb002)

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Country: United States
Designed 1988

U Washington, late 80's. An object-oriented distributed language designed for the Topaz operating system, and based on a subset of C++.

Amber is a distributed object-oriented system, based on C++, for writing parallel programs that execute on a local-area network. It uses a single shared distributed address space above which C++ objects are supported

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Related languages
C++ → Amber   Based on
Emerald → Amber   Influence
References:
  • Chase, J. Amador, F. Lazowska, E. Levy, H. Littlef (1989) Chase, J. Amador, F. Lazowska, E. Levy, H. Littlefield, R. "The Amber System: Parallel Programming on a Network of Multiprocessors" Abstract Extract: Introduction
          in [ACM] (1989) [ACM] Proceedings of the 12th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles, December 1989
  • Achauer, B. (1993) Achauer, B. "The DOWL Distributed Object-Oriented Language" Extract: Ontro
          in [ACM] (1993) [ACM] CACM 36(09) (Sep 1993)
  • Philippsen, Michael (2000) Philippsen, Michael "A survey of concurrent object-oriented languages" pp917-980
          in (2000) Concurrency: Practice and Experience 2000 v12
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