The SRI team developed a simpler abstraction for the Byzantine problem: rather than getting agreement on a sequence of commands, they created an algorithm for agreement on a single command and executed it repeatedly—this was a nicer abstraction than Lamport's sequence-based approach.

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Leslie Lamport

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Instead of getting agreement on a sequence among the processes on a sequence of commands, uh they would agree have an algorithm for agreement on a single command

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Turing Award Winner: Thinking Clearly, Paxos vs Raft, Working With Dijkstra | Leslie LamportRyan Peterman
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:17:50 PM

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