From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Brian L.Stuart To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] MS Research reinvents Inferno? Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 14:14:06 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20051214191406.TXQO4459.ibm60aec.bellsouth.net@mail.bellsouth.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: c5acbc8e-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > speaking of OS textbooks and making a fuss about not-too-original work, > surely the best recent example is the much-touted O(1) linux scheduler! > was it not as many as 10 or 12 years waiting for someone, somewhere to read > one of the above mentioned textbooks ... Good point. I'll make sure I reference earlier descriptions when I talk about the Linux scheduler. Brian L. Stuart