From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@fr.inter.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] authorization schemes (was CORBA)
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2001 12:32:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <008101c14a64$6cd814d0$a2b9c6d4@SOMA> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3BB3722D.2D77B4BE@null.net>
> According to some of the Berkeleyites, there was a flaw in
> the VAX-11/750 memory management unit (microcode?) such
> that they were unable to use copy-on-write.
yeah, i heard that story about the comet. we had 780's
and it just worked fine and was faster and cleaner than
vfork. i got kre to help me run some benchmarks. vfork
seemed to go to a _lot_ of trouble to do very little.
hell, the whole paging system sucked.
chinese + red book + a weekend's thought = copy on write fork.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-01 10:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-26 17:39 Scott Schwartz
2001-09-26 17:55 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-09-26 19:15 ` Mike Haertel
2001-09-26 21:57 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-09-27 11:05 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-09-27 11:34 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-10-01 9:49 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-10-01 10:32 ` Boyd Roberts [this message]
2001-10-01 10:35 ` David Lukes
2001-10-01 14:29 ` Ronald G Minnich
2001-10-02 1:02 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-10-02 3:09 ` Ronald G Minnich
2001-10-02 8:14 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-10-04 9:11 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-10-04 9:28 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-10-04 10:28 ` davel
2001-10-04 10:34 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-10-05 8:43 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-10-02 9:05 ` David Lukes
2001-09-26 17:44 presotto
2001-09-26 17:59 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-09-27 11:04 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2001-09-26 18:08 presotto
2001-10-01 11:00 forsyth
2001-10-01 12:16 rob pike
2001-10-08 9:36 ` Thomas Bushnell, BSG
2001-10-01 12:24 rob pike
2001-10-01 12:48 ` Boyd Roberts
2001-10-02 11:11 forsyth
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