Lower bounds for wait-free computation in message-passing systems

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Lower bounds for wait-free computation in message-passing systems

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Annual ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing archive
Proceedings of the ninth annual ACM symposium on Principles of distributed computing table of contents

Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

Pages: 347 - 362

Year of Publication: 1990

ISBN:0-89791-404-X

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M. Herlihy	DEC Cambridge Research Lab, One Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA
Mark R. Tuttle	DEC Cambridge Research Lab, One Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA

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SIGOPS: ACM Special Interest Group on Operating Systems
SIGACT: ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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