[comp.arch] Publish date of Lampson-Sproull paper

aek@Apple.COM (Al Kossow) (05/31/90)

The date of "early eighties" perked my interest because I remembered
seeing it much earlier. The actual reference is:

Lampson,B. and Sproull, R. "An open system for a single-user machine"
Proc. of the Seventh Symposium on Operating Systems Principles,
December, 1979. 98-105.

It is a discussion of the BCPL version of Alto software, which dates
at least to the early seventies on machine with no paged memory management
(pre Dolphin and Dorado). The later versions of the software for the 
Altos did have multiple threads of execution within the context of
the strongly-typed Mesa language.
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