CS262a: Reading Assignment #5 Due Wednesday, February 3rd

1. Experience with Processes and Monitors in Mesa (2-up version)
   Butler Lampson and David Redell, Appears in Communications of the ACM 23, 2 (Feb. 1980), pp 105-117.
2. Principles of Transaction-Oriented Database Recovery
   Theo Haerder and Andreas Reuter, Appears in Journal of the ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), Vol 15, No 4 (Dec. 1983), pp287-317

You must also:

Submit a summary for each paper.

Optional reading for paper #1:

• Pilot: An Operating System for a Personal Computer,
  David D. Redell, Yogen K. Dalal, Thomas R. Horsley, Hugh C. Lauer, William C. Lynch, Paul R. McJones, Hal G. Murray, and Stephen C. Purcell. Appears in Proceedings of the 7th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), Pacific Grove, Calif., Dec. 10-12, 1979
• Early Experience with Mesa,
  Charles M. Geschke, James H. Morris Jr, and Edwin H. Satterthwaite. Apears in ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS/SICSOFT Conference on Language Design for Reliable Software. 1977
• MARS rover priority inversion story

Optional reading for paper #2:

• The Transaction Concept: Virtues and Limitations,
  Jim Grey. Appears in Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), Sept. 1981.
  

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