From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: William Josephson To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Virtual memory in BSD and Plan9 Message-ID: <20011025142927.B8085@honk.eecs.harvard.edu> References: <20011025175530.1D4BF19A1C@mail.cse.psu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011025175530.1D4BF19A1C@mail.cse.psu.edu>; from rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com on Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 01:55:25PM -0400 Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 14:29:27 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0dec9098-eaca-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 01:55:25PM -0400, Russ Cox wrote: > The discussions here were talking about many-years-old > systems. I don't think anyone even mentioned Plan 9's VM system, > which is just about the simplest thing you could imagine. > The BSDs have oodles more ``features.'' I'd look in > www.researchindex.com for the latest stuff, and in McKusick et al. > (Design and Implementation of the 4.4BSD OS) for older stuff. > You can decide for yourself whether Plan 9 needs any of it. You probably want to take a look at Charles Cranor's PHd thesis from Washington on UVM. If I recall correctly, some of the *BSDs (NetBSD, FreeBSD?) have picked it up or at least borrowed ideas. -WJ