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Real computer hardware does not implement as atomic actions all the assignment statements, guard evaluation actions, and atomic statements of our programming notation. A typical computer can execute only a small, fixed set of unconditional atomic actions; an operating system might add to this a few conditional atomic actions. Thus, there is a gap between the programming model we have been assuming and what is available on an actual computer system.
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Schneider, F.B. (1997). Programming with Fine-Grained Atomic Actions. In: On Concurrent Programming. Graduate Texts in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1830-2_9
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