From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org, doug@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: Re: [TUHS] dmr streams & networking [was: Re: If not Linux, then what?]
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:05:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190828190534.GH13570@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <93732314-1521-3118-47c0-5b973b7b926e@case.edu>
On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 03:03:34PM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 8/28/19 2:49 PM, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
>
> >> Sorry, what I said about London/Reiser is true, but not the whole
> >> story. L/R didn't have demand paging; BSD did.
> >
> > But my question still stands. Why didn't Research keep going from L/R
> > and add demand paging? Wouldn't that have been "cleaner" than starting
> > from BSD?
>
> It's my impression that BSD had done other work that Research didn't want
> to duplicate, like autoconfiguration, device support, and so on. Joy got
> a lot out of the VAX hardware.
He was a coding machine back then. Quite the legacy.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-28 19:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-28 18:41 Doug McIlroy
2019-08-28 18:49 ` arnold
2019-08-28 19:03 ` Chet Ramey
2019-08-28 19:05 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2019-08-29 14:58 ` Jason Stevens
2019-08-29 16:25 ` arnold
2019-08-29 16:38 ` Ralph Corderoy
2019-08-29 17:35 ` arnold
2019-08-28 21:55 ` Rob Pike
2019-08-28 22:29 ` George Michaelson
2019-08-28 22:36 ` William Pechter
2019-08-28 23:02 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-08-29 0:11 ` Clem cole
2019-08-29 0:18 ` George Michaelson
2019-08-29 6:27 ` Lars Brinkhoff
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2019-09-01 2:36 [TUHS] dmr streams & networking [was: Re: If not Linux, then what? Rudi Blom
2019-09-01 2:16 [TUHS] dmr streams & networking [was: Re: If not Linux, then what?] Rudi Blom
2019-08-31 9:43 Rudi Blom
2019-08-31 15:41 ` Clem Cole
2019-08-30 20:21 Norman Wilson
2019-08-30 20:28 ` Larry McVoy
2019-08-30 20:39 ` Clem Cole
2019-08-30 21:52 ` Larry McVoy
2019-08-31 0:58 ` Clem Cole
2019-08-31 1:13 ` Bakul Shah
2019-08-31 2:46 ` Clem cole
2019-08-31 2:57 ` Clem cole
2019-08-31 3:14 ` Gregg Levine
2019-08-31 3:47 ` Clem cole
2019-08-31 3:38 ` Bakul Shah
2019-08-31 5:37 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-08-31 19:03 ` Clem Cole
2019-09-05 5:11 ` Al Kossow
2019-09-02 8:28 ` Peter Jeremy
2019-09-02 23:26 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-08-31 3:19 ` Bakul Shah
2019-08-28 17:57 Doug McIlroy
2019-08-28 18:05 ` Adam Thornton
2019-08-28 18:08 ` arnold
2019-08-28 18:27 ` Warner Losh
2019-08-28 18:34 ` Warner Losh
2019-08-28 21:54 ` Rob Pike
2019-08-29 6:43 ` arnold
2019-08-29 7:39 ` Rob Pike
2019-08-29 16:26 ` arnold
2019-08-29 3:29 ` Lawrence Stewart
2019-08-29 4:10 ` Larry McVoy
2019-08-28 9:17 Paul Ruizendaal
2019-08-28 10:44 ` Angelo Papenhoff
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