19 Sep
2023
19 Sep
'23
5:34 a.m.
On Tue, 19 Sep 2023, Paul Ruizendaal wrote:
Any suggestions as to why the on-the-fly algorithm did
not catch on more
in the 1980’s? Maybe it was simply less well known than I think?
Could it have been the per-cpu-second billing that was (fairly?) common at
the time. I was only getting in to Unix in the early 90s but saw the tail
end of that.
Cheers,
Rob