On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Sergey Oboguev <[email protected]> wrote:
> If so, he may have a claim to inventing (a hint at) a microkernel concept. > ;-) Dykstra invented the ukernel -- its the THE kernel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THE_multiprogramming_system The paper itself is http://uosis.mif.vu.lt/~liutauras/books/Dijkstra%20-%20The%20structure%20of%20the%20THE%20multiprogramming%20system.pdf And all kernel hacker should read it some time. It where the idea of semaphores are defined and the idea of "up" and "down" - (aka P/V). Clem
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