rcd@opus.UUCP (04/05/84)
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Sorry, but I just can't let this one pass:
> Brinch Hansen (of P and V fame)...
No, "p and v fame" belongs to Edsger Dijkstra, from the seminal paper
"Cooperating Sequential Processes".
I'd ignore it, but little myths and slips get perpetuated. (How many
people have been fooled into thinking that "virtual memory" was invented at
IBM?)
--
Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile.
{hao,ucbvax,allegra}!nbires!rcd
emjej@uokvax.UUCP (04/13/84)
#R:opus:-32000:uokvax:5200002:000:233 uokvax!emjej Apr 12 20:41:00 1984 P = passeren V = vrijgeven and I wish I remembered enough Dutch (heck, that I learned enough Dutch) to say for sure what they mean! Dag allemaal, en tot de volgende keer, as John van der Steen would say, James Jones
wbpesch@ihuxp.UUCP (Walt Pesch) (04/19/84)
I believe that they are quite simply: P = passeren -> proceed V = vrijgeven -> halt Walt Pesch AT&T Technologies ihnp4!ihuxp!wbpesch
rentsch@unc.UUCP (Tim Rentsch) (04/20/84)
P (passaren) => "pass" as in pass through the gate V (vriegeben) => "give free" as in allow someone free passage thru gate