From: Digby Tarvin <digbyt@acm.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] A shot in the dark
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 16:53:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080528155332.GC7907@skaro.cthulhu.dircon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <775b8d190805280017r60413e4ej14da03e70b3660b@mail.gmail.com>
That brings back memories. I think it was Dave Milway who gave
a talk on the BFI at UNSW, where he revealed during question
time at the end that 'BFI' stood for 'Beut Fast Interface'.
Regards,
DigbyT
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 05:17:07PM +1000, Bruce Ellis wrote:
> I went to that fest, it was an early AUUGM.
>
> I think it was the BFI interface team at UNSW.
>
> I'll check the c-side library (I keep everythng).
>
> brucee
>
> On 5/28/08, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Bakul Shah <bakul+plan9@bitblocks.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Not quite the same but perhaps you are thinking of "Hardware
> > > Profiling of Kernels" by Andrew McRae in Winter 1993 usenix.
> > > From his paper:
> >
> > it's good enough, and my memory probably is bad enough that this is
> > the right one.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > ron
> >
> >
--
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-28 15:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-27 22:02 ron minnich
2008-05-27 22:54 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-05-27 23:00 ` ron minnich
2008-05-28 0:06 ` Digby Tarvin
2008-05-28 2:54 ` Paul Lalonde
2008-05-28 7:31 ` Bruce Ellis
2008-05-28 15:49 ` Digby Tarvin
2008-05-28 18:34 ` [9fans] OT: supporting multiple VGA cards (was "A shot in the dark") Digby Tarvin
2008-05-28 19:07 ` ron minnich
2008-05-28 0:16 ` [9fans] A shot in the dark Bakul Shah
2008-05-28 0:30 ` ron minnich
2008-05-28 7:17 ` Bruce Ellis
2008-05-28 15:53 ` Digby Tarvin [this message]
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