Data Directed Control and Operating Systems
E. W. Elcock, J. J. McGregor, Alistair M. Murray · The Computer Journal · 1972
The paper describes a simple and uniform mechanism for dynamic data directed control of the activation and suspension of interacting processes. Although this control structure was conceived to meet the design objectives of an assertative language, and is introduced in the paper from this viewpoint, the control structure is particularly appropriate to the operating system in which the language is embedded. The paper is written in the expectation that principles of this kind of control structure should be applicable to the design of operating systems in other environments.