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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
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Subject: Re: Teaching Concurrency
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Date: 12 Jan 90 19:02:42 GMT
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I believe that the following two problems are inappropriate, because
they are subject to race conditions related to task startup time,
quantum sizes, and so on:

> (3) veryslowsort.
> (6) quantum mouse.
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