31 Aug
2019
31 Aug
'19
2:28 a.m.
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.