NIST network common memory user manual

This manual describes how to use the NIST Network Common Memory System (CMS), version 7. The CMS provides a common memory that may be shared among processes distributed across a local area network. Unlike other shared memory systems, CMS accesses variables by name rather than by address. These and other features make the system more comparable to a primitive distributed database than a shared memory system. CMS currently runs on Berkeley UNIX systems but can be supported on any POSIX-like system which provides a stream protocol at the transport layer. Interfaces exist for usage from C and Franz Lisp.