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The part-time parliament

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Recent archaeological discoveries on the island of Paxos reveal that the parliament functioned despite the peripatetic propensity of its part-time legislators. The legislators maintained consistent copies of the parliamentary record, despite their frequent forays from the chamber and the forgetfulness of their messengers. The Paxon parliament's protocol provides a new way of implementing the state machine approach to the design of distributed systems.

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Leslie Lamport (1998). The part-time parliament. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 16(2). https://doi.org/10.1145/279227.279229

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Lamport, L. (1998). The part-time parliament. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 16(2). https://doi.org/10.1145/279227.279229
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