Sunil Sarin, Mark DeWitt, and Ronni Rosenberg, "Overview of SHARD: A System for Highly Available Replicated Data," Technical Report 162, Xerox Advanced Information Technology (May 1988).
2. Per Wikipedia[1] Crowntek sold Computer Corporation of America's Advanced Information Technology division to Xerox Corporation in 1988.
To me this suggests that it was the "Advanced Information Technology division" specifically which would have had the paper in question, and that bit of CCA wound up with Xerox.
That said, it can't hurt to reach out anybody connected to this in any way. You never know who will wind up "knowing a guy who knows a gal, who knows a ..." or whatever.
I suspect that if that memo lives on anywhere, it's somewhere in the bowels of Xerox. I say that based on observing that:
1. In the paper by Ronni L. Roseniberg at https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA209126.pdf the citation to the SHARD paper changed to
Sunil Sarin, Mark DeWitt, and Ronni Rosenberg, "Overview of SHARD: A System for Highly Available Replicated Data," Technical Report 162, Xerox Advanced Information Technology (May 1988).
2. Per Wikipedia[1] Crowntek sold Computer Corporation of America's Advanced Information Technology division to Xerox Corporation in 1988.
To me this suggests that it was the "Advanced Information Technology division" specifically which would have had the paper in question, and that bit of CCA wound up with Xerox.
That said, it can't hurt to reach out anybody connected to this in any way. You never know who will wind up "knowing a guy who knows a gal, who knows a ..." or whatever.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Corporation_of_Americ...