From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: scj@yaccman.com
Cc: Paul Ruizendaal <pnr@planet.nl>,
The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Early multiprocessor Unix
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2023 17:54:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230806005431.GI19141@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4726704a3c0e056d6e4d5dd1dc582116@yaccman.com>
On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 04:00:55PM -0700, scj@yaccman.com wrote:
> The Sun workstations
> had some quirks: from time to time they would page in a page of all zeros
> due to a timing problem.
Was this over NFS? Because that was a thing. Paging in from disc I've
never heard of this.
BTW, scj, loving your walk through history. I'd love to read drafts of
your management book. My entire career I waited to meet a person that
got as much joy out of managing as I got out of engineering.
Still waiting.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-06 0:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-28 13:24 [TUHS] " Paul Ruizendaal
2022-11-28 13:42 ` [TUHS] " Larry Stewart
2022-11-28 14:05 ` Clem Cole
2022-11-28 14:13 ` Clem Cole
2022-11-28 14:19 ` Warner Losh
2023-08-06 14:19 ` Warner Losh
2022-11-28 14:16 ` Warner Losh
2022-11-28 14:50 ` Clem Cole
2022-11-28 16:30 ` Paul Winalski
2022-11-28 16:49 ` Clem Cole
2023-08-06 14:12 ` Warner Losh
2022-11-28 16:52 ` Jonathan Gray
2022-11-29 9:39 ` Jonathan Gray
2022-11-29 15:54 ` [TUHS] First supercomputer UNIX: The Denelcor HEP (was Early multiprocessor Unix) Ron Natalie
2022-11-29 17:00 ` [TUHS] " Jon Steinhart
2022-11-29 20:53 ` steve jenkin
2023-08-05 23:00 ` [TUHS] Re: Early multiprocessor Unix scj
2023-08-06 0:54 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2023-08-06 6:52 ` Paul Ruizendaal
2023-08-06 9:28 ` Ronald Natalie
2023-08-06 9:57 ` Ralph Corderoy
2022-11-30 2:55 Rudi Blom
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