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Why Is A Standard Needed?
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Portability and ease-of-use,
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Provides hardware vendors with well-defined set of routine to
implement efficiently,
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Pre-requisite for the development of concurrent software industry,
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Will lead to more widespread use of concurrent computers.
David W Walker
Mon Jan 20 11:10:22 GMT 1997