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From: Andrea Campi <andrea@webcom.it>
To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
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On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 02:04:07AM +0000, Tony Finch wrote:
> Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
> >
> >For example, no commercial (in the sense of non-toy) operating system
> >has made a serious stab at doing non-blocking synchronization.
> 
> What does that mean in terms of simpler concepts? It sounds like a
> contradiction in terms to me...

<off topic>
<advocate hat>
I'm trying to get more people in the company I work for, a BT subsidiary, to
install and use FreeBSD. Problem is, the CTO is a great AIX fan, and is
always touting the preemptive kernel of Mach based architectures. Anybody care
to give me pointers, by private mail, on what arguments we have against that? ;)
<advocate hat>
<off topic>



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