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The S.A. Lebedev Institute developed operating system for the AS-6 distributed computing system (OS AS-6) in the 1970s. The OS AS-6 consisted of peer operating systems of separate machines making up the AS-6 computer system. Those operating systems interacted through a uniform interface. The OS AS-6 facilitated interaction between computation processes on the nodes of the AS-6 system through a network together with their interaction with the global network. It provided the possibility for any process in the AS-6 system to use all the devices connected with the nodes of the AS-6 computer both with addressing and with usage of external devices. It also supported a pipeline operation of the computers in the AS-6 system performing real-time processing of large data streams of spacecraft missions. The operating systems of the nodes of the AS-6 system had a special means for parallel processes management, including task hierarchy organization and information processing management within a single task.
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AS-6 Data Processing System. Russian Virtual Computer Museum, http://www.computer-museum.ru/histussr/as6.htm (in Russian)
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Bourdonov, I.B., Ivannikov, V.P., Kossatchev, A.S., Kuznetsov, S.D., Tomilin, A.N. (2011). Operating System of the Multi-machine Computer AS-6. In: Impagliazzo, J., Proydakov, E. (eds) Perspectives on Soviet and Russian Computing. SoRuCom 2006. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 357. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22816-2_5
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