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Even if such a thing were to exist, it would probably by necessity be built on some lower-level system that doesn't provide such guarantees… like a filesystem.


IIRC in the old Tandem OS transactions were a basic service, even lower level than the file system. So their file system could use the transaction service to perform arbitrary transactions without much complexity. These days all the world's a VAX though.




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