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Thank you. That was informative.

> But Barbara invented the actual consistent replication algorithm

Do you know anything about Brian Oki's subsequent career? I was curious as to what he did after his VSR thesis and found a '93 paper of his (The Information Bus [1]). Interesting to see again he was a bit ahead of his time, this time anticipating 'Eventual Consistency'.

[1]: http://www.cs.utah.edu/~retrac/cs7460/infobus.pdf



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