: The text provides concrete examples from prominent architectures of the early 90s, including CISC (Intel 80486, Pentium) and RISC (Motorola 68040/88000, MIPS, and SPARC) processors.
Find it. Read the chapter on "Cache Coherency Protocols." And realize that every mutex_lock() in your Linux laptop contains a small ghost of that anxious, brilliant year when Unix stared into the pipeline and refused to blink. unix systems for modern architectures -1994- pdf