[Haskell] Re: [Haskell-cafe] SimonPJ and Tim Harris explain STM- video

[Claus Reinke]

this thread reminds me about something that I wanted to ask you.
if I recall correctly, most of the literature references in STM papers
are recent, so I wondered whether you are aware of this one:

    NAMING AND SYNCHRONIZATION IN A 
    DECENTRALIZED COMPUTER SYSTEM

    SourceTechnical Report: TR-205 
    Year of Publication: 1978 
    Author D. P. Reed 

I'm not entirely sure where I got my version from (it was mentioned
as a cornerstone in Alan Kay et al s latest project, Croquet, on which
Reed is a collaborator: http://www.opencroquet.org/ ), but here is
the abstract:

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?coll=GUIDE&dl=GUIDE&id=889815

(note that it mentions both grouping of updates, and synchronized 
composition of modules with local synchronization constraints)

and this might be the official site for the scanned copy (?):

http://www.lcs.mit.edu/publications/specpub.php?id=773

just wondering,
claus