Article: 110741 of alt.folklore.computers Path: iad-read.news.verio.net!dfw-artgen!iad-peer.news.verio.net!news.verio.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!c03.atl99!chi1.webusenet.com!news.webusenet.com!pd2nf1so.cg.shawcable.net!residential.shaw.ca!news2.calgary.shaw.ca.POSTED!not-for-mail X-Trace-PostClient-IP: 68.147.131.211 From: Brian Inglis Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: Re: the word "mutex" Organization: Systematic Software Reply-To: Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca Message-ID: References: <3e39656d$0$207$9a6e19ea@news.newshosting.com> X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.92/32.572 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 22 Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 20:10:59 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.71.223.147 X-Complaints-To: abuse@shaw.ca X-Trace: news2.calgary.shaw.ca 1043957459 24.71.223.147 (Thu, 30 Jan 2003 13:10:59 MST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 13:10:59 MST Xref: dfw-artgen alt.folklore.computers:110741 On 30 Jan 2003 17:48:29 GMT, Anatoly Vorobey wrote: >Hello, > >I tried to find some information on who invented the word >"mutex" and when it was first used, but failed miserably. Any >information or advice on where to look for such information >will be appreciated. Dijkstra used it as a mutual exclusion semaphore variable name in his 1965 paper Cooperating Sequential Processes http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/ewd01xx/EWD123.PDF Thanks. Take care, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada -- Brian.Inglis@CSi.com (Brian dot Inglis at SystematicSw dot ab dot ca) fake address use address above to reply abuse@aol.com tosspam@aol.com abuse@att.com abuse@earthlink.com abuse@hotmail.com abuse@mci.com abuse@msn.com abuse@sprint.com abuse@yahoo.com abuse@cadvision.com abuse@shaw.ca abuse@telus.com abuse@ibsystems.com uce@ftc.gov spam traps