- ...Multiprocessors 
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       This work was supported in
       part by NSF Institutional Infrastructure grant
       no. CDA-8822724, ONR research grant no. N00014-92-J-1801 (in
       conjunction with the DARPA Research in Information Science and
       Technology---High Performance Computing, Software Science and Technology
       program, ARPA Order no. 8930), and Brazilian CAPES and NUTES/UFRJ
       fellowships.
 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
- ...writer. 
 - The only
    situation in which a block can move to the weak state as a result of
    a read request is if it is currently in the dirty state (i.e. it has
    a single writer).
 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
- ...block. 
 -  Stale blocks are similar to weak blocks in our
  protocol.
 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
 
  
  Leonidas Kontothanassis 
  Mon Jul 24 22:40:09 EDT 1995