Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 12:54:03 +0000 From: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How do basic OS principles continue to improve? Message-ID: <20020214125402.A52045@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <3C6B43D3.39B7011F@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 08:57:55PM -0800 References: <20020213192510.A46224@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <3C6B43D3.39B7011F@mindspring.com>
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| Most cutting edge CS work occurs in academia, in very | small groups, with no more than 4 people participating, | and usually, a single idealist leading the group. That's what I've heard as well. I love the fact that IPv6 is developed on open source operating systems, and yet will hardly be accepted in the networking world until Windows supports it. | Other things which appear to be "breakthroughs" are just | concessions to hardware tradeoffs that are true today | that weren't true when the original implementations were | first deployed (e.g. relative cost of disk seeks vs. | speed on tracks, relative costs of main memory access vs. | cache access, etc.). Revisiting these tradeoffs is normal | and doesn't really count as "breakthrough" in my book. As I was writing my first email, I was wondering if this might describe some of the scenarios. I was especially thinking of the VM and FFS changes recently. It seems to me the new self-tuning ability of BSD's operating parameters would make it quite adaptable to different hardware environments. Wow. I really love this OS. :-) 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
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