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Are you talking about the Dijkstra who wrote one of the earliest operating systems that introduced most of the OS concepts we use today, including mutual exclus
by random314 10y ago
Are you talking about the Dijkstra who wrote one of the earliest operating systems that introduced most of the OS concepts we use today, including mutual exclusion algorithms, deadlock detection and prevention, kernel/user mode etc or are you talking about someone else?
- microtherion 10y agoWhile the THE multiprogramming system may have had these, Multics had them roughly at the same time, and I'm pretty sure today's operating systems trace their use of these concepts back to Multics, rather than THE.
- random314 10y agoAmazing he did all these when jetting between conferences. Can I quote you as a reference when arguing on the Internet that our OS concepts do not owe anything to Djikstra, who was only jetting between conferences? It sounds like you are pretty sure.