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From: martin@gatech.UUCP (Martin McKendry)
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Subject: Re: P and V / Re: Should Universities Explore... Re: 'toy OS'
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Date: Fri, 20-Apr-84 08:56:44 EST
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With respect to who gets credit for semaphores:  Dijkstra may get
the credit, but if you read "Cooperating Sequential Processes" or
even "The Structure of the THE Operating System" you will note that
Dijkstra does not take credit for them.  They are actually due
to some obscure electrical engineer in Holland.  Dijkstra does
note this in one of the above papers.  He's just a little lax
on references at the end of papers....

-- 
Martin McKendry
School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
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