[cs63201] Re: AOS Homework 1

[Mikhail Nesterenko]

> 
> For #1, is it correct that process Q can recieve more than one message
> at a time from the channel? So if there were three messages in the
> channel, it can consume all of them at the same time?

No, only one message is received in one atomic step. If a process
receives three messages. It has to execute three steps.

> 
> For #7  and 8 , Can we/should we assume that any of the nodes (perhaps
> node  a) is the initiator of the algorithm or root of the tree?

For 7 (Tarry's algorithm) all leaves are the initiators. 

For 8, 9, 10, please assume that node a) is the initiator.

thanks,
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Mikhail