From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>
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 14:00:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e1162e60512141400x39a24f82x33af373e13aad257@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <db6fd8b38cb90bbcf8d05da842ab2146@vitanuova.com>
On 12/14/05, C H Forsyth <forsyth@vitanuova.com> wrote:
> 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 ...
>
>
Not sure I understand. I've read about how this scheduler works, it
was so simple sounding at the time I've forgotten now :).
Are you saying that this was discussed in Computer Science texts 10
years ago and no one implemented it?
I'm pretty sure that's par for the course. There's far too much "if
it ain't broke..." mentality that people never strive to create things
that are just flat out *better*.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-14 22:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-13 7:02 Skip Tavakkolian
2005-12-13 7:13 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2005-12-13 8:50 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-12-13 15:04 ` Kenneth Long
2005-12-13 12:26 ` Sergey Zhilkin
2005-12-13 16:26 ` LiteStar numnums
2005-12-13 16:30 ` Paul Lalonde
2005-12-13 16:39 ` Brantley Coile
2005-12-13 16:53 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-12-13 17:54 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2005-12-13 16:49 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-12-13 16:57 ` Lucio De Re
2005-12-13 17:02 ` alexandr babic
2005-12-13 17:43 ` Russ Cox
2005-12-13 17:56 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-12-13 20:19 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-12-13 20:52 ` David Leimbach
2005-12-14 2:12 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-12-14 2:19 ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-12-14 10:02 ` Richard Miller
2005-12-14 4:01 ` Bruce Ellis
2005-12-13 17:56 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-12-13 18:07 ` alexandr babic
2005-12-14 0:02 ` Steve Simon
2005-12-14 9:42 ` Richard Miller
2005-12-14 10:09 ` C H Forsyth
2005-12-13 18:16 ` William Josephson
2005-12-13 20:46 ` David Leimbach
2005-12-13 21:05 ` Brantley Coile
2005-12-14 2:05 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-12-13 18:45 ` Brantley Coile
2005-12-13 18:50 ` Russ Cox
2005-12-13 18:55 ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-12-13 19:02 ` Russ Cox
2005-12-14 6:30 ` Jack Johnson
2005-12-14 7:16 ` Jack Johnson
2005-12-14 10:07 ` Richard Miller
2005-12-13 20:49 ` David Leimbach
2005-12-13 22:09 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2005-12-13 21:20 ` LiteStar numnums
2005-12-13 21:54 ` David Leimbach
2005-12-13 20:18 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-12-14 5:56 ` Jack Johnson
2005-12-14 6:02 ` Lucio De Re
2005-12-14 9:50 ` Steve Simon
2005-12-14 6:05 ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-12-14 6:14 ` andrey mirtchovski
2005-12-14 9:28 ` Russ Cox
2005-12-14 7:29 ` Andriy G. Tereshchenko
2005-12-14 14:49 ` Brantley Coile
2005-12-14 10:11 ` Richard Miller
2005-12-14 11:00 ` Russ Cox
2005-12-14 12:47 ` erik quanstrom
2005-12-14 15:06 ` Brantley Coile
2005-12-14 16:20 ` C H Forsyth
2005-12-14 22:00 ` David Leimbach [this message]
2005-12-13 17:14 ` David Leimbach
2005-12-13 18:13 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-12-14 3:05 ` erik quanstrom
2005-12-13 17:43 ` Wes Kussmaul
2005-12-13 18:04 ` Bakul Shah
2005-12-13 18:15 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-12-13 20:04 ` Oliver Bandel
2005-12-14 5:02 ` Jack Johnson
2005-12-14 12:26 ` LiteStar numnums
[not found] ` <000401c5ffe3$22447ce0$14aaa8c0@utelsystems.local>
2005-12-13 13:01 ` "Nils O. Selåsdal"
2005-12-13 16:36 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-12-14 15:42 Brian L.Stuart
2005-12-14 16:20 ` Paweł Lasek
2005-12-14 19:14 Brian L.Stuart
2005-12-14 20:06 Brian L.Stuart
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