historical slip?

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From: rcd
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 1984 23:13

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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

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