Chapter 10 Reference 2

On Interprocess Communication

Leslie Lamport

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Leslie Lamport. "On Interprocess Communication." Distributed Computing, volume 1, issue 2, pages 77–101, June 1986. doi:10.1007/BF01786228

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On Interprocess Communication-Part I: Basic Formalism, Part II: Algorithms - Microsoft Research

Most computer scientists regard synchronization problems, such as the mutual exclusion problem, to be problems of mathematics. How can you use one class of mathematical objects, like atomic reads and writes, to implement some other mathematical object, like a mutual exclusion algorithm? I have always regarded synchronization problems to be problems of physics. How do […]

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