The duality of memory and communication in the implementation ofamultiprocessor operating system (1987)

by Michael Young, Avadis Tevanian, Richard Rashid, David Golub, Je rey Eppinger, Jonathan Chew, William Bolosky, David Black, Robert Baron
Venue:In Proc. Eleventh Symposium on Operating System Principles
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Implementing Distributed Systems Using Linear Naming

by Alan Bawden - MIT AI Lab , 1993
"... things is explicitly represented. The key idea is the notion of linearity. A name is linear if it is only used once, so with linear naming you cannot create more than one outstanding reference to an entity. As a result, linear naming is cheap to support and easy to reason about. ..."
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things is explicitly represented. The key idea is the notion of linearity. A name is linear if it is only used once, so with linear naming you cannot create more than one outstanding reference to an entity. As a result, linear naming is cheap to support and easy to reason about.