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Work in the area of networked shared memory is progressing quite rapidly:
It is not just a crazy thought.
The following is a short list of references to recent work that is relevant
to the subject.  I'll be glad to receive notice of any other activity
in the area by people in this list.

1.    Bisiani,  R.  and  Forin,  A.,  ``Architectural Support for
Multilanguage Parallel  Programming  on  Heterogeneous  Systems'',  2nd
International Conference   on  Architectural  Support  for  Programming
Languages  and Operating Systems, IEEE, Palo Alto , October 1987, pp. 21-30.

2.    Cheriton D.R., ``Problem-oriented Shared Memory: A Decentralized
Approach to  Distributed  System  Design'',  Proc.  of  the  6th  Intl.
Conf.  on Distributed Computing Systems, May 1986, pp. 190-197.

3.    Kai Li and Paul  Hudak,  ``Memory  Coherence  in  Shared  Virtual
Memory Systems'',  Proceedings  of  the  Fifth Annual Symposium on
Principles of Distributed Computing, ACM, 1986, pp. 229-239.

4.    Krishnaswamy, Ahuja, Gelernter,  Carriero,  ``Progress  Towards  a
Linda Machine'',  Proc.  ICCD,  IEEE-CS  and  IEEE  Circuits, October 1986,
pp.  97-101.

5.    Ramachandran,  U.,  Ahamad,  M.,  Khalidi,  M.,  ``Hardware  Support
For Distributed Shared Memory'', Report GIT-ICS-87/41, Georgia Tech,
November 1987.

6.    Rashid, R. et al., ``Machine-Independent Virtual  Memory  Management
for Paged Uniprocessors and Multiprocessor Architectures'', 2nd
International Conference  on  Architectural  Support  for  Programming
Languages   and Operating Systems, IEEE, Palo Alto , October 1987, pp.
31-39.

7.    Wendorf,  J.  and  Tokuda, H., ``An Interprocess Communication
Processor:  Exploiting  OS/Application  Concurrency'',  Tech.  report
CMU-CS-87-152, Carnegie-Mellon University, March 1987.

8.    Zayas,  R.E., The Use of Copy-on-reference in a Process Migration
System, PhD dissertation, Carnegie-Mellon, January 1987.
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