| 1989 | A Lazy Buddy System Bounded by Two Coalescing Delays per Class. Ronald E. Barkley, T. Paul Lee |
| 1989 | A Logic of Authentication. Michael Burrows, Martín Abadi, Roger M. Needham |
| 1989 | Analysis of Transaction Management Performance. Dan Duchamp |
| 1989 | Exploiting Read-Mostly Workloads in The FileNet File System. David A. Edwards, Martin S. McKendry |
| 1989 | Generic Virtual Memory Management for Operating System Kernels. Vadim Abrossimov, Marc Rozier, Marc Shapiro |
| 1989 | Improving the Efficiency of UNIX File Buffer Caches. Andrew Braunstein, Mark Riley, John Wilkes |
| 1989 | Leases: An Efficient Fault-Tolerant Mechanism for Distributed File Cache Consistency. Cary G. Gray, David R. Cheriton |
| 1989 | Lightweight Remote Procedure Call. Brian N. Bershad, Thomas E. Anderson, Edward D. Lazowska, Henry M. Levy |
| 1989 | Low-Synchronization Translation Lookaside Buffer Consistency in Large-Scale Shared-Memory Multiprocessors. Bryan S. Rosenburg |
| 1989 | Mirage: A Coherent Distributed Shared Memory Design. Brett D. Fleisch, Gerald J. Popek |
| 1989 | Performance of Firefly RPC. Michael D. Schroeder, Michael Burrows |
| 1989 | Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles, SOSP 1989, The Wigwam, Litchfield Park, Arizona, USA, December 3-6, 1989 Gregory R. Andrews |
| 1989 | Process Control and Scheduling Issues for Multiprogrammed Shared-Memory Multiprocessors. Andrew Tucker, Anoop Gupta |
| 1989 | RPC in the x-Kernel: Evaluating New Design Techniques. Norman C. Hutchinson, Larry L. Peterson, Mark B. Abbott, Sean W. O'Malley |
| 1989 | Reducing Risks from Poorly Chosen Keys. T. Mark A. Lomas, Li Gong, Jerome H. Saltzer, Roger M. Needham |
| 1989 | Simple But Effective Techniques for NUMA Memory Management. William J. Bolosky, Robert P. Fitzgerald, Michael L. Scott |
| 1989 | Spritely NFS: Experiments with Cache-Consistency Protocols. V. Srinivasan, Jeffrey C. Mogul |
| 1989 | The Amber System: Parallel Programming on a Network of Multiprocessors. Jeffrey S. Chase, Franz G. Amador, Edward D. Lazowska, Henry M. Levy, Richard J. Littlefield |
| 1989 | The Implementation of a Coherent Memory Abstraction on a NUMA Multiprocessor: Experiences with PLATINUM. Alan L. Cox, Robert J. Fowler |
| 1989 | The Portable Common Runtime Approach to Interoperability. Mark D. Weiser, Alan J. Demers, Carl Hauser |
| 1989 | Threads and Input/Output in the Synthesis Kernel. Henry Massalin, Calton Pu |