Chapter 30. Transaction processing monitors and systems
30.1 Transaction processing monitors
30.2 Introduction to some electronic funds transfer (EFT) applications
30.3 International inter-bank payments: SWIFT
30.4 Authentication by PIN
30.5 The international automatic teller machine (ATM) network service
30.6 Load and traffic in TP systems
30.7 Summary and trends
We first discuss systems aspects of transaction processing (TP) monitors. TP applications impose requirements on the underlying system in the following areas:
the operating systems in the various computers involved, in particular, their support for processes, with or without multi-threading and inter-process communication (IPC);
the communications support for the messages which flow to effect ...
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