From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 07cd45dc for ; Fri, 30 Aug 2019 20:28:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 23BA09C0BF; Sat, 31 Aug 2019 06:28:31 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B33849C07F; Sat, 31 Aug 2019 06:28:16 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 44CF29C07F; Sat, 31 Aug 2019 06:28:15 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mcvoy.com (mcvoy.com [192.169.23.250]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DC0919C077 for ; Sat, 31 Aug 2019 06:28:14 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mcvoy.com (Postfix, from userid 3546) id 6BE0435E0A8; Fri, 30 Aug 2019 13:28:14 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 13:28:14 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: Norman Wilson Message-ID: <20190830202814.GF10796@mcvoy.com> References: <1567196510.21824.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1567196510.21824.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Subject: Re: [TUHS] dmr streams & networking [was: Re: If not Linux, then what?] X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 04:21:47PM -0400, Norman Wilson wrote: > John Reiser did do his own paging system for UNIX 32/V. > I heard about it from friends at Bell Labs ca. 1982-83, > when I was still running systems for physicists at Caltech. > It sounded very interesting, and I would love to have had > my hands on it--page cache unified with buffer cache, > copy-on-write from the start. Huh, Moran published his SunOS VM system paper in 1988, my guess is he was working on the code for a year or two before that. So Reiser's work predates that. Super interesting. I too would love for someone to find a copy of that code.