[fpc-pascal] Counting semaphore for free pascal

[Michael Schnell]

On 07/30/2015 10:50 AM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> CriticalSection and TEvent derive their names from Windows OS calls, 
> adopted by Delphi and hence by FPC.
> There is nothing FPC specific about it.
>
OK. Thanks for the clarification.

I understand that the computer science names ate Mutex and Semaphore and 
both are adopted by UNIX / POSIX and then by Linux. No idea why the 
Windows makers chose to invent a new notation for that old stuff.

-Michael