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1992
Eighteenth century British sailors exhibited an almost haughty disdain for accurate navigation. When one of them was asked how to navigate a sailing ship from London to the New World, he replied: “Sail south until the butter melts, then turn right.” For decades thereafter, Britannia ruled the waves, but her seamen paid for their lack of navigational ...
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Eighteenth century British sailors exhibited an almost haughty disdain for accurate navigation. When one of them was asked how to navigate a sailing ship from London to the New World, he replied: “Sail south until the butter melts, then turn right.” For decades thereafter, Britannia ruled the waves, but her seamen paid for their lack of navigational ...
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Priority Inheritance Protocols: An Approach to Real-Time Synchronization
IEEE Trans. Computers, 1990L. Sha, R. Rajkumar, J. Lehoczky
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