From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 13 11:25:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk (serenity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9236437B402 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 11:25:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #6) id 16b51j-000IKe-00 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 19:25:11 +0000 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.11.6/8.11.1) id g1DJPAb46244 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 19:25:10 GMT (envelope-from jcm) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 19:25:10 +0000 From: j mckitrick To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: How do basic OS principles continue to improve? Message-ID: <20020213192510.A46224@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Since VM has been around for quite a while, and since the basic algorithms for task scheduling, page swapping, critical sections and so on have been around for a while as well as basic computer sci theory, what leads to the breakthrough new designs we see in BSD? Other than SMP? jm -- My other computer is your windows box. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message