meaning of mesa

1. Mesa Xerox PARC, 1977. System and application programming for proprietary hardware: Alto, Dolphin, Dorado and Dandelion. Pascal-like syntax, ALGOL68-like semantics. An early version was weakly typed. Mesas modules with separately compilable definition and implementation parts directly led to Wirths design for Modula. Threads, coroutines fork/join, exceptions, and monitors. Type checking may be disabled. Mesa was used internally by Xerox to develop ViewPoint, the Xerox Star, MDE, and the controller of a high-end copier. It was released to a few universitites in 1985. Succeeded by Cedar. ["Mesa Language Manual", J. G. Mitchell et al, Xerox PARC, CSL-79-3 Apr 1979]. ["Early Experience with Mesa", Geschke et al, CACM 208:540-552 Aug 1977]. mesh The INTERCAL name for hash. MESI protocol Modified, Exclusive, Shared, Invalid. A cache coherency protocol where each cache line is marked with one of the four states. The MESI protocol is used by the Pentium processor.
2. a city just east of Phoenix; originally a suburb of Phoenix

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