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1982 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Device handling, concurrency, and interrupts
Author : Professor Dr. Niklaus Wirth
Published in: Programming in Modula-2
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Included in: Professional Book Archive
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In the last chapter we have discussed systems with several processes and how to simulate concurrent processes by time-sharing a single processor. Now we consider the inverse situation, where several processors participate in the execution of a single process. For the sake of simplicity, let us look at a cyclic process consisting of a producing and a consuming part.