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produced using Adobe Illustrator and software of the author?s design. Times is a trademark and Helvetica is a registered trademark of Allied Corporation. Illustrator is a trademark of Adobe Systems, Inc. Scribe and UNILOGIC are registered trademarks of Unilogic, Ltd. UNIX is a trademark of Bell Laboratories. VAX is a trademark of Digital Equipment Corporation. Copyright 1986, 1987 by Christopher A. Kent. All Rights Reserved. To the memory of my father and the persistence of my mother. iv Cache Coherence in Distributed Systems Abstract v Caching has long been recognized as a powerful performance enhancement technique in many areas of computer design. Most modern computer systems include a hardware cache between the processor and main memory, and many operating systems include a software cache between the file system routines and the disk hardware., |
