In the landscape of 1994, the word "modern" meant something radically different than it does today. Intel had just released the Pentium (P5). RISC architectures (SPARC, MIPS, Alpha, PowerPC) were waging a clock-speed war. And the Unix operating system—born in the 1970s on DEC PDP minicomputers—was undergoing a painful, bloody, yet glorious metamorphosis to survive on these new, complex beasts.
Detailed look at shared memory and mapped files. 2. Cache Memory Systems unix systems for modern architectures -1994- pdf
Curt Schimmel's 1994 text, UNIX Systems for Modern Architectures In the landscape of 1994, the word "modern"
: Implementation and performance trade-offs of spin locks , semaphores , and mutexes , as well as coarse-grained vs. fine-grained locking strategies. In the landscape of 1994
