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* Re: [TUHS] Origin of the name 'strategy'
@ 2019-01-09  5:42 Dave Horsfall
  2019-01-09 12:02 ` Dan Cross
  2019-01-09 15:12 ` [TUHS] Lions book (not " Bakul Shah
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 12+ messages in thread
From: Dave Horsfall @ 2019-01-09  5:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society

On Tue, 8 Jan 2019, Warner Losh wrote:

> The name seems obvious because I've seen it for the last 30 years. But 
> I've not seen it used elsewhere, nor have I seen it documented except in 
> relationship to Unix. It could have been called blkio or bufio or bio or 
> even just work or morework and still been as meaningful. VMS uses the 
> FDT table to process the IRPs sent down. RT-11 has a series of entry 
> points that have boring names. Other systems have a start routine 
> (though more often that is a common routine used by both the queue me 
> and isr functions). There is a wide diversity here...

I must admit that this is an interesting thread, just as long as it wasn't 
called XXoptimize() unless you wanted a backlash from British English 
speakers :-)

In hindsight I suppose that XXstrategy() is obvious, but back then, as you 
ask?  Dunno, but Ken might (if he's reading this thread).

One of my favo[u]rites is sched(); some pronounce it as "shed" and others 
as "sked".  Another American/British thing, I think...

Wasn't it Mark Twain who said "Two nations divided by a common language"?

I no longer have my Lions books on me, sadly enough (lost in a house move) 
but there certainly were some peculiar names in the kernel...

ObGripe: Could anyone replying to the digest version please take the 
trouble to update the Subject: line accordingly?  I've now put the 
original back as a courtesy to others, but I shouldn't have to; it's as 
bad as top-posting.

-- Dave

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2019-01-09 12:02 ` Dan Cross
2019-01-09 15:12 ` [TUHS] Lions book (not " Bakul Shah
2019-01-09 16:09   ` Warner Losh
2019-01-09 16:20     ` Clem Cole
2019-01-09 16:50       ` Warner Losh
2019-01-09 22:53         ` Dave Horsfall
2019-01-09 17:50       ` Bakul Shah
2019-01-09 17:55         ` Warner Losh
2019-01-09 17:20     ` Andy Kosela
2019-01-09 22:24   ` Dave Horsfall
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