On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 09:05:46AM -0500, A. P. Garcia wrote:
> 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@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@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=3493s
> > > > >
> > > > > "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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