At DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation), which Lamport joined in 1985, they had built one of the first distributed operating systems with all computers on an Ethernet network sharing common storage, maintaining consistency via algorithms rather than explicit code.
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“all of the uh computers in the building were on a single Ethernet network and shared a common storage uh and they had an algorithm for maintaining consistency of that storage”
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Turing Award Winner: Thinking Clearly, Paxos vs Raft, Working With Dijkstra | Leslie Lamport— Ryan PetermanCreated: 8/12/2026, 6:17:50 PM
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