29 Aug
2019
29 Aug
'19
2:58 p.m.
Yeah sockets, FFS, VM, autoconfiguration. It almost seems a shame he went to SUN.
Although at the same time it’s no wonder why they grabbed him ASAP. I guess it’s like
Avie working for NeXT.
From: Larry McVoy
Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2019 3:06 AM
To: Chet Ramey
Cc: tuhs(a)tuhs.org; doug(a)cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: Re: [TUHS] dmr streams & networking [was: Re: If not Linux,then what?]
On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 03:03:34PM -0400, Chet Ramey wrote:
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.
He was a coding machine back then. Quite the legacy.
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?