Eddy Kim graduated with a bachelor degree in Computer Science from the University of Southern California in 1994. He is currently a Member of Technical Staff at Platinum Technologies, Los Angeles Laboratories. His article(s) was written solely on personal time and equipment. The information presented was neither derived nor related to any project the author has done, or is doing at Platinum Technologies, Los Angeles Labratories. The prime reason for using OS/2 was that the author was sick of rebooting the machine every 20 minutes in DOS/Windows while learning how to program. His current OS/2 project is the ultimate C++ library/framework as the basis of an RPG. He can be reached via e-mail at ekim@platinum.com Eddy has written the following article: Using Semaphores in C++  (August 1996)