[net.research] historical slip?

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