Andrew: a distributed personal computing environment
The Information Technology Center (ITC), a collaborative effort between IBM and Carnegie-Mellon University, is in the process of creating Andrew, a prototype computing…
John H. Howard
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The selection of optimal tab settings
A new generation of computer terminals allows tab settings to be selected and set by the computer. This feature can be used to reduce the number of characters that are…
Interesting scheduling and sequential properties of monitors can be proved by using state variables which record the monitors' history and by defining extended proof…
Mixed solutions for the deadlock problem
Mixtures of detection, avoidance, and prevention provide more effective and practical solutions to the deadlock problem than any one of these alone. The individual…
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