22 Oct
2012
22 Oct
'12
4:05 p.m.
Yes, Bart Miller regarding "Fine-grained dynamic instrumentation of
commodity operating sytem kernels":
ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/paradyn/papers/Tamches99FineGrained.pdf
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Larry McVoy <lm(a)bitmover.com> wrote:
Which professor and which work? I'm guessing
Bart.
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 08:01:44AM -0500, A. P. Garcia wrote:
I watched one he gave at a usenix conference
where he sort of recapped
some
of the history of solaris and how oracle ruined
everything and drove away
all the talent. Whether he had a valid point or not, it wasn't very
becoming. I don't know..it just never looks good when you air that stuff
out in public.
That said, it's hard to exaggerate the brilliance of dtrace. Like a
uw-madison professor said about some of the work that inspired it, it's
like watching in fine detail the inner parts of an engine move while
going
down the highway at 60 mph.
On Oct 21, 2012 7:56 PM, "Larry McVoy" <lm(a)bitmover.com> wrote:
> Did anyone watch his talk? I just tried and couldn't make out what he
was
> talking about.
>
> Bryan's a smart guy but a little subjective. I spent a day wandering
> around San Franciso with him (we used to live within a few blocks of
> each other) talking tech stuff, hardware, os, etc. He was completely
> rational, smart, insightful, until we got to either sparc or solaris.
> Then he was subjective as hell, he just couldn't back away from them
> enough to make an objective comparison to other solutions.
>
> Funny thing was that so long as sparc/solaris weren't the subject
matter
> he was very objective, could see the
pros/cons of anything.
>
> I guess he drank the Sun koolaid.
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 11:51:20PM +0100, Sevan / Venture37 wrote:
> >
>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk8aZv0JJuk&feature=player_detailpage#t=…
> >
> > "SunOS has never run on a 16bit machine"
> >
> > My response was M68000 & 386 but his counter response was they both
> > supported 32bit addressing.
> >
> > Sevan
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