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From: "Erik E. Fair" <fair-tuhs@netbsd.org>
To: Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Origin of the name 'strategy'
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2019 14:28:29 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <868.1546900109@cesium.clock.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEoi9W4UdEbHRZ_T=KtYy2_KseZzSpvGvCw-qNizhRqvumQuPw@mail.gmail.com>


>From: Dan Cross <crossd@gmail.com>
>Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2019 16:28:42 -0500
>
>I always thought it had to do with computing the optimal strategy for
>writing blocks to the disc device....  I wonder where I got that impression
>from.  Perhaps reading Bach?

Perhaps from reading the strategy routines of disk device drivers? That's where disksort() routine to perform HDA seek minimization via elevator sort is called. Still true in NetBSD today, though some of the routine names have changed. That would seem worth of being called a "strategy".

	Erik Fair

  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-07 22:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-07 21:21 Warner Losh
2019-01-07 21:27 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-01-07 21:28 ` Dan Cross
2019-01-07 22:28   ` Erik E. Fair [this message]
2019-01-09 20:51 ` Clem Cole
2019-01-09 23:30   ` Dave Horsfall
2019-01-09  5:42 Dave Horsfall
2019-01-09 12:02 ` Dan Cross

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