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Experience with processes and monitors in Mesa

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Volume 23 , Issue 2 (February 1980) table of contents

Pages: 105 - 117

Year of Publication: 1980

ISSN:0001-0782

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Butler W. Lampson	Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, Palo Alto, CA
David D. Redell	Xerox Business System, Palo Alto, CA

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INDEX TERMS

Keywords:
concurrency, condition, deadlock, module, monitor, operating system, process, synchronization, task, variable

Collaborative Colleagues:

Butler W. Lampson: colleagues

David D. Redell: colleagues

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