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The '''Software Upgrade Protocol''' (or SUP) System is a set of programs developed by [[Carnegie Mellon University]] in the 1980s<ref>[httphttps://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/mach/public/sup/sup.ps The SUP Software Upgrade Protocol] - Steven Shafer & Mary Thompson, Carnegie Mellon University [[Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science|School of Computer Science]], 7 September 1989.</ref> (as was the [[Andrew File System]]). It provides for collections of files to be maintained in identical versions across a number of machines.
It was originally developed under the [[Mach (kernel)|Mach]] operating system, but implementations are provided with Debian<ref>[httphttps://packages.debian.org/squeeze/search?keywords=sup&searchon=names&exact=1 Debian Package: sup] (Software Upgrade Protocol implementation)</ref> & Ubuntu<ref>[httphttps://ns2packages.canonicalubuntu.com/natty/search?keywords=sup&searchon=names&exact=1 Ubuntu Package: sup]{{dead link|date=May 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (Software Upgrade Protocol implementation)</ref> Linux distributions.
