this thread reminds me about something that I wanted to ask you.
if I recall correctly, most of the literature references in STM papers
are recent, so I wondered whether you are aware of this one:
NAMING AND SYNCHRONIZATION IN A
DECENTRALIZED COMPUTER SYSTEM
SourceTechnical Report: TR-205
Year of Publication: 1978
Author D. P. Reed
I'm not entirely sure where I got my version from (it was mentioned
as a cornerstone in Alan Kay et al s latest project, Croquet, on which
Reed is a collaborator: http://www.opencroquet.org/ ), but here is
the abstract:
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&id=889815
(note that it mentions both grouping of updates, and synchronized
composition of modules with local synchronization constraints)
and this might be the official site for the scanned copy (?):
http://www.lcs.mit.edu/publications/specpub.php?id=773
just wondering,
claus
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