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In early 1977 we began to design the concurrent programming facilities of Pilot, a new operating system for a personal computer 5. Pilot is a fairly large program itself (25,000 lines of Mesa code). In addition, it supports some large applications, ranging from data base management to internetwork message transmission, which are heavy users of concurrency (our experience with some of these applications is discussed in the paper). We intended the new facilities to be used at least for the following purposes:
Lampson et al. (Mon,) studied this question.