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History of the Actor model might be involved in a computation. Implementations of the Actor model are free to make use of threads and locks in any way that is compatible with the laws for Actors. An important challenge in defining the Actor model was to abstract away implementation details. For example, consider the following question: "Does each Actor have a queue in which its communications are stored until received by the Actor to be processed?" Carl Hewitt argued against including such queues as an integral part of the Actor model. One consideration was that such queues could themselves be modeled as Actors that received