See:
Borg, Wolfgang Blau, Wolfgang Graetsch, Ferdinand Herrmann, Wolfgang Oberle: Fault Tolerance Under UNIX. TOCS 7(1): 1-24 (1989)
1986
also:
Anita Borg, Wolfgang Blau, Wolfgang Oberle, Wolfgang Graetsch: Fault Tolerance in Distributed UNIX. Fault-Tolerant Distributed Computing 1986: 224-243
1983
Anita Borg, Jim Baumbach, Sam Glazer: A Message System Supporting Fault Tolerance. SOSP 1983: 90-99
The earliest description I've heard of this idea was from Sam Glazer in 1982.
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