From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Larry Stewart <stewart@serissa.com>
Cc: segaloco <segaloco@protonmail.com>, tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: UNIX on (not quite bare) System/370
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2022 17:33:23 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221220013323.GL4401@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A3958F17-000C-4096-BFFE-7CDCE2F3386F@serissa.com>
On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 08:20:07PM -0500, Larry Stewart wrote:
> I forget if I've mentioned this here before, so apologies in advance.
>
> I never met Reiser, but I ran across his PhD thesis (for Knuth!). It was 35 pages (!) on random number generators. I implemented one for my own work. It was pretty clear he was one of those people who is smarter than the rest of us.
Rob's (and maybe other's?) description of the VM system he did makes me
really want to read that code. Rob talked about it the way I talk about
the SunOS 4.x VM system, very clean and easy to understand.
I'm still waiting to hear someone talk about an SMP VM system that way.
That stuff gets complicated.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-20 1:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-19 17:38 [TUHS] " Phil Budne
2022-12-19 18:53 ` [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
2022-12-19 21:01 ` Clem Cole
2022-12-19 21:19 ` Rob Pike
2022-12-19 22:15 ` segaloco via TUHS
2022-12-20 0:02 ` Brad Spencer
2022-12-20 1:04 ` Adam Thornton
2022-12-20 2:35 ` segaloco via TUHS
2022-12-20 14:25 ` Andrew Hume
2022-12-19 23:02 ` Clem Cole
2022-12-20 1:20 ` Larry Stewart
2022-12-20 1:33 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2022-12-20 1:57 ` George Michaelson
2022-12-20 2:06 ` Dan Cross
2022-12-20 15:04 ` Chet Ramey
2022-12-20 2:12 ` Adam Thornton
2022-12-20 15:29 ` Andy Kosela
2022-12-20 15:35 ` Adam Thornton
2022-12-21 2:43 ` Luther Johnson
2022-12-20 23:18 ` David Arnold
2022-12-20 2:52 ` Bakul Shah
2022-12-20 3:09 ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-20 3:27 ` Bakul Shah
2022-12-20 3:48 ` Warner Losh
2022-12-20 4:21 ` Jonathan Gray
2022-12-19 21:36 ` Marc Donner
2022-12-19 22:52 ` Charles H Sauer (he/him)
[not found] ` <01428a75-3507-7b8a-fd35-cef74c8c0bd2@ucsb.edu>
2022-12-20 1:49 ` [TUHS] Re: pre-1991 USENIX proceedings Marc Donner
2022-12-20 3:11 ` [TUHS] Re: UNIX on (not quite bare) System/370 Warner Losh
2022-12-20 8:56 ` arnold
2022-12-20 9:31 ` segaloco via TUHS
2022-12-20 9:39 ` arnold
2022-12-20 9:55 ` Jonathan Gray
2022-12-20 14:27 ` Clem Cole
2022-12-23 1:53 ` Rob Gingell
2022-12-22 19:00 ` Andrew Hume
2022-12-20 22:25 Noel Chiappa
2022-12-20 23:18 ` Bakul Shah
2022-12-22 17:26 Noel Chiappa
2022-12-22 17:33 ` Dan Cross
2022-12-22 20:25 ` Warner Losh
2022-12-22 23:06 ` Warner Losh
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