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CS258: Reading Assignment #4
Due Wednesday, February 13

The reading assignment for Wednesday for CS 258 is to read the following two papers:
  1. Architecture of a message-driven processor.  W. J. Dally,  L. Chao,  A. Chien,  S. Hassoun, W. Horwat,  J. Kaplan,  P. Song,  B. Totty, and  S. Wills.  Proceedings of the 14th Annual International Conference on Computer Architecture. ISCA 1987
  1. Exploiting Two-Case Delivery for Fast Protected Messaging.  Kenneth Mackenzie, John Kubiatowicz, Anant Agarwal, and Frans Kaashoek. Proceedings of 4th Int'l Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture Feb. 1998.
You must also:
Write one paragraph about each paper. You should briefly summarize the arguments, then  describe your opinions on and reactions to the issues introduced in the papers.
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