Mesa Process Working Group
A working group of PARC and SDD employeeds began working in 1977 to design features for Mesa that would allow concurrent programming. The resultant design improved on the monitors and condition variables independently designed by Per Brinch Hansen and C. A. R. Hoare in the early 1970s. The Mesa design was presented at the 7th SOSP in 1979 and then published in CACM. A similar design was later implemented at DEC Systems Research Center as the thread feature of the Modula-2+ and Modula-3 programming languages. Later, the POSIX Threads standard adopted substantially the same design, through the advocacy of Garret Swart, a DEC SRC member who joined the POSIX Threads design committee.
Item Details
- Date
- 1977-1978 (Made)
- Type
- Document
- Catalogue number
- 102805401
- Organization
- Xerox
- Format
- Credit line
- Gift of Paul McJones
- Extent
- 192 pages
- Language
- English
- Acquisition number
- X9513.2021