Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Even more fun is trying to provide "atomic" access operations - which, 
> as far as I can tell, absolutely *must* be done at the hardware level. 
> There's just no way you could implement it in software.

Actually, there is. Look up Lamport's "baker's algorithm."  Weird stuff.

It kind of surprised me it was possible too.

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   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
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