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From: dinsdale%liaison@Sun.COM (Tom van Peer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: SEMAPHORES
Keywords: Semaphores
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Date: 10 Apr 89 18:29:37 GMT
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Try any book on operating systems and you will get your answers.  The word
semaphore you might want to look up in a so called "dictionary", a book filled
with explanations of words.  I am sure your university has one.  
The term semaphore in relation to computers has been discussed several
times in comp.misc.  You might still find some traces there of the last
discussion which was a copy of the previous discussions on that subject.

Tom van Peer.

tom@pcg.philips.nl or
dinsdale@liaison.sun.com (whichever is closer to you)