Yes. I cited the reference with more bibliographic information, but I actually downloaded the paper from the CSAIL link that John quoted. I just wanted to be sure it was the right paper :-)
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 9:20 AM, Alan Kay <alan.n...@yahoo.com> wrote: > But in this case, Dave's thesis would have been an LCS TR, so should be > findable (and free) via the CSAIL "historic collections". > > Cheers, > > Alan > > ________________________________ > From: John Zabroski <johnzabro...@gmail.com> > To: Fundamentals of New Computing <fonc@vpri.org> > Sent: Tue, May 11, 2010 6:42:50 AM > Subject: Re: [fonc] An actor-based environment for prototyping > > http://publications.csail.mit.edu/lcs/specpub.php?id=773 > > MIT has catalogued for free basically all their CS papers ever. -- Most > Ph.D.'s require going through a clearinghouse to acquire and will set you > back a chunk of monies. > > On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Dale Schumacher > <dale.schumac...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi Alan, >> >> Thanks for the encouragement. After a little searching I found >> "Naming and Synchronization in a Decentralized Computer System", D. P. >> Reed, 1978 [1]. Is that the paper you had in mind? It looks >> interesting, but I haven't had a chance to absorb it yet. ... >> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 7:28 AM, Alan Kay <alan.n...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> > Hi Dale et al. >> > >> > This sounds like a great project, and I'd like to find out more. (Have >> > you >> > looked at David Reed's 1978 MIT thesis on "distributed transactional >> > object >> > operating systems". In my opinion this was one of the very best next >> > steps >> > wrt objects (and it was influenced by Actors)). ... _______________________________________________ fonc mailing list fonc@vpri.org http://vpri.org/mailman/listinfo/fonc
