from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
Sr
n 1: a soft silver-white or yellowish metallic element of the
alkali metal group; turns yellow in air; occurs in
celestite and strontianite [syn: {strontium}, {Sr}, {atomic
number 38}]
2: the unit of solid angle adopted under the Systeme
International d'Unites [syn: {steradian}, {sr}]
from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
SR
<language> Synchronizing Resources.
A language for concurrent programming.
"Resources" encapsulate processes and variables they share.
Each Resource can be separately compiled. "Operations"
provide the primary mechanism for process interaction.
SR provides a novel integration of the mechanisms for invoking
and servicing operations. Consequently, it supports local and
{remote procedure call}, {rendezvous}, {message passing},
{dynamic process creation}, {multicast}, {semaphores} and
{shared memory}.
Version 2.2 has been ported to {Sun-3}, {Sun-4}, {Decstation},
{SGI Iris}, {HP PA}, {HP 9000/300}, {NeXT}, {Sequent
Symmetry}, {DG AViiON}, {RS/6000}, {Multimax}, {Apollo} and
others.
(ftp://cs.arizona.edu/sr/sr.tar.Z).
E-mail: <[email protected]>. Mailing list:
[email protected].
["An Overview of the SR Language and Implementation", G.
Andrews, ACM TOPLAS 10:51-86 (Jan 1988)].
["The SR Programming Language: Concurrency in Practice",
G.R. Andrews et al, Benjamin/Cummings 1993, ISBN
0-8053-0088-0].
(1992-09-01)