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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction; 2 The nature and uses of concurrent programming; 3 Inter-process communication; 4 Task types and objects; 5 The rendezvous; 6 The select statement and the rendezvous; 7 Protected objects and data-oriented communication; 8 Avoidance synchronisation and the requeue facility; 9 Exceptions, abort and asynchronous transfer of control; 10 Object-oriented programming and tasking; 11 Concurrency utilities; 12 Tasking and systems programming; 13 Scheduling real-time systems fixed priority dispatching.14 Scheduling real-time systems other dispatching facilities15 Timing events and execution-time control; 16 Real-time utilities; 17 Restrictions, metrics and the Ravenscar profile; 18 Conclusion; References; Index;Electronic reproduction.Available via World Wide Web.