Backing up one more step...

[William S. Frantz]

> (Does KeyKOS
> have any notion of "non-persistent processes" or anything like that,
> or does _everything_ outside the kernel always have to be persistent?)

Application programs in the Transaction Monitor (KeyTXF) were non-
persistant.  The transaction monitor noticed the restart and gronked
(now there is a technical term ;-) ) them as part of its restart logic.
Like every form of non-persistance in KeyKOS, it had to be programmed
in.  External device drivers were also supposed to obey a protocol
which amounted to non-persistance.

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