Apparatus for locking a portion of a computer memory

Details Apparatus for locking a portion of a computer memory Apparatus for locking a portion of a computer memory

1988-02-25

1990-12-04

Shaw, Gareth D.

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36494831, 3649659, 3649692, 3649693, 36523005, 365195, G06F 1214, G06F 1316, G11C 700

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ABSTRACT:
An apparatus for incorporation in each memory-using component of a data processing system permits locking of a portion of the memory, which portion may be as small as a single location, for atomic read-modify-write operations while permitting unlimited access to the memory for read operations and access to all but the locked portion for non-atomic write operations.

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