28 Aug
2019
28 Aug
'19
7:03 p.m.
On 8/28/19 2:49 PM, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
It's my impression that BSD had done other work that Research didn't want
to duplicate, like autoconfiguration, device support, and so on. Joy got
a lot out of the VAX hardware.
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``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet(a)case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
Sorry, what I
said about London/Reiser is true, but not the whole
story. L/R didn't have demand paging; BSD did.
But my question still stands. Why didn't Research keep going from L/R
and add demand paging? Wouldn't that have been "cleaner" than starting
from BSD?