Interprocess communication and processor dispatching on the Intel 432
George W. Cox, William M. Corwin, Konrad K. Lai, Fred J. Pollack · ACM Transactions on Computer Systems · 1983
A unified facility for interprocess communication and processor dispatching on the Intel 432 is described.The facility is based on a queuing and binding mechanism called a port.The goals and motivations for ports, both abstract and implementation views of them, and their absolute and comparative performance are described.