1 Sep
2018
1 Sep
'18
9:01 p.m.
On Sat, Sep 01, 2018 at 12:43:52PM +0100, Steve Mynott wrote:
On Wed, 29 Aug 2018 at 15:53, Larry McVoy
<lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
The BSDs have a less than optimal VM system. Having SunOS opened up
I wandered through the FreeBSD VM recently. Perhaps I'm just old and
tired but it looked pretty messy to me. Still Mach based and the
Mach VM system, which came about at about the same time as the SunOS
VM system, doesn't remotely compare. Sun had some exceptional
talent at the time, there was a reason I fought hard to join that
group, I wanted to work with people who were better than me.
would at least let people see what they are
missing. Maybe I have
rose colored glasses on but it was the only kernel that came into
focus for me and you could see the architecture from the code.
Everything else seems like a mess to me.
That may have been true in the late 80s and even early 90s but I'd have
thought FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD would have useable VMs by now.