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Lamport lists his collected works on his site[0] along with some commentary for each one, and directly mentions, The Maintenance of Duplicate Databases, as the origin for logical clock paper. Many of the notes have interesting commentary.

> Many computer scientists claim to have read it. But I have rarely encountered anyone who was aware that the paper said anything about state machines. People seem to think that it is about either the causality relation on events in a distributed system, or the distributed mutual exclusion problem. People have insisted that there is nothing about state machines in the paper. I've even had to go back and reread it to convince myself that I really did remember what I had written.[1]

0: https://lamport.azurewebsites.net 1: https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/pubs.html#time-clocks

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