From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3e1162e60512141400x39a24f82x33af373e13aad257@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 14:00:09 -0800 From: David Leimbach To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] MS Research reinvents Inferno? In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <713bec3c9b204453bdfc05e7e1158702@coraid.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: c5b63962-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 12/14/05, C H Forsyth 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 re= ad > 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*.