Yes, Edsger Kijkstra came up with the idea of semaphores in real-time
Kernels.

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From: "Walter Banks" <walter@BYTECRAFT.COM>
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Sent: Friday, August 16, 2002 9:26 AM
Subject: [OT] Dijkstra (no goto's) dies August 6


> We collectively owe a lot to a the software engineering pioneer
> Edsger Dijkstra passed away on August 6. An obituary is on line at
> http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/UTCS/notices/dijkstra/ewdobit.html
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