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* THREADS *
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Birrell 
"An Introduction to Programming with Threads"
DEC SRC Tech Report 35 1989

Nichols, Buttlar, Farrell 
"Pthreads Programming"
O'Reilly 1996
Ch 1 "Why Threads?"

Lewis & Berg 
"Multithreaded Programming with Pthreads"
Prentice-Hall 98
Ch 3 Foundations
Ch 4 Lifecycle
Ch 5 Scheduling
Ch 6 Synchronization

Stein & Shah 
"Implementing Lightweight Threads"
USENIX Summer '92

Eykhol, Kleiman, Barton, Faulkner, Shivalingiah, 
Smith, Stein, Voll, Weeks, Williams
"Beyond Multiprocessing ... Multithreading the SunOS Kernel"
USENIX Summer '92

Marsh, Scott, LeBlanc, Markatos 
"First Class User-Level Threads"
? SOSP 92, 93?

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* ADVANCED SYNCHRONIZATION *
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Toby Bloom
"Synchronization Mechanisms for Modular Programming Languages"
MIT Master's Thesis 1979

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* PARALLEL PROGRAMMING *
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Anderson
"Performance of Spinlock Alternatives for Shared Memory Multiprocessors"
IEEE TOPDS 1,1 Jan 90

Bershad Anderson Lazowska Levy
"User-Level Interprocess Communication for Shared Memory Multiprocessors"
ACM TOCS 9,2 May 91

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* DISTRIBUTED OS, RPC *
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Silberschatz Galvin
"Operating Systems Concepts 5e"
Addision-Wesley 1998
Ch 15 Distributed Systems: Network Solutions
Ch 16 Distributed Systems: Distributed System Structures
Ch 17 Distributed Systems: Distributed File Systems

Birrell, Nelson
"Implementing Remote Procedure Call"
ACM TOCS 2,1 Feb 84

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* DISTRIBUTED FILESYSTEMS   *
* DISTRIBUTED SHARED MEMORY *
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Nelson Welch Ousterhout
"Caching in the Sprite File System"
ACM TOCS 6,1 Feb 88

Tanenbaum
"Distributed Operating Systems"
Prentice-Hall 1995
Ch 5 Distributed File Systems
Ch 6 Distributed Shared Memory

* NETWORK PROTOCOL IMPLEMENTATION ???
* REALTIME SYSTEMS, QOS ???
* PROTECTION, SECURITY ???