What is the real significance of Dekker’s Algorithm?

What will be an ideal response?

Quite simply that it correctly implements mutual exclusion without the use of special purpose hardware on a uniprocessor system. Thus it was possible to use Dekker’s Algorithm to implement mutual exclusion primitives on early computer systems that were not specifically designed for this purpose.

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