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From: kobryn@esosun.UUCP (Cris Kobryn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: reference wanted
Message-ID: <314@esosun.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jan 89 01:41:28 GMT
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In-reply-to: budd@mist.cs.orst.edu's message of 23 Jan 89 21:12:57 GMT

In article <8438@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> budd@mist.cs.orst.edu (Tim Budd) writes:

   I'm looking for a published reference for the idea of futures, either in
   Lisp or in Smalltalk.  (No, I don't want an explaination of the idea, I
   understand that well enough; I want a reference for a paper I'm writing).

Futures are one of two constructs used for dealing with parallelism
in Multilisp.  Their function is described in:

	Halstead, R. H., "Implementation of Multilisp:  Lisp on a
		Multiprocessor,"  1984 ACM Symposiusm on Lisp and
		Functional Programming, 1984.

-- Cris Kobryn