Re: [TUHS] Bryan Cantrill on bfs & ta

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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > TUHS mailing list > > > > TUHS(a)minnie.tuhs.org > > > > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs > > > > > > -- > > > --- > > > Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com > > > http://www.bitkeeper.com > > > _______________________________________________ > > > TUHS mailing list > > > TUHS(a)minnie.tuhs.org > > > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs > > > > > -- > --- > Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com > http://www.bitkeeper.com >