Summary: Summary
In summary, the key to our work was (1) we took a
more programmer­centric view of the problem com­
pared to the more prevalent hardware­centric view at
that time, and (2) our persistence in seeking the mini­
mal possible constraints for the hardware interface. This
resulted in our redefining the problem in programmer­
centric terms, enabling a better understanding of some
of the fundamental issues. It is perhaps worth noting
that when we began this work, the problem seemed
deceptively simple, and a highly respected senior col­
league actually warned us that we were getting into
what appeared to be a closed area!
Acknowledgments
We thank those acknowledged in the original paper
and Jim Goodman who we regrettably omitted. We
thank the sponsors of this research for the confidence
they showed in a new professor: Michael Foster and
Zeke Zalcstein of the National Science Foundation, Rae
McLellan of Bell Labs, Chuck Thacker then of DEC,

Source: Adve, Sarita - Department of Computer Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Hill, Mark D. - Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin at Madison

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences