Re: [Re: [Re: coarse vs fine-grained locking in SMP systems]]

1999-06-26 Thread Jesus Monroy
Daniel J. O'Connor dar...@dons.net.au wrote: On 26-Jun-99 Jesus Monroy wrote: An approach like that can't possibly be sufficient if code has been written with the assumption that only interrupt-like events or blocking calls can change things from under it. There is quite a bit

Re: [ispell(1) is for WIMPs (was Re: vi(1) is for whimps)]

1999-06-25 Thread Jesus Monroy
Wes Peters w...@softweyr.com wrote: Bill Fumerola wrote: On 22 Jun 1999, Jesus Monroy wrote: vi(1) is for whimps http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/1986/viforwhimps.html As long as you're critiquing people for what you called (paraphrased) a smiley that made you sound

Re: [Re: coarse vs fine-grained locking in SMP systems]

1999-06-25 Thread Jesus Monroy
Ville-Pertti Keinonen w...@iki.fi wrote: m...@servo.ccr.org (Mike O'Dell) writes: we published the best Unix SMP paper I've ever seen in Computing Systems - from the Amdahl guys who did an SMP version of the kernel by very clever hacks on SPLx() macros to make them spin locks and a bit of

vi(1) is for whimps

1999-06-22 Thread Jesus Monroy
vi(1) is for whimps http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lab/1986/viforwhimps.html --- I'd rather pay for my freedom than live in a bitmapped, pop-up-happy dungeon like NT. http://www.performancecomputing.com/features/9809of1.shtml

Re: [Re: Kernel config script ]

1999-06-02 Thread Jesus Monroy
Mike Smith m...@smith.net.au wrote: Perhaps this is the wrong list to post this question, but has there been any work done on a script (similar to what Slackware Linux uses) that asks the user questions (Do you want to run SCO binaries, etc) and configures a kernel conf file for them?

BUDS Coming to you soon.

1999-05-13 Thread Jesus Monroy
this project for whatever they wanted. [5] The Digital Marshalls are: Terje Oseberg, programmer extraordinare from SRI Jonathan Walters, gopher and head pipe cleaner Jesus Monroy, hack and annoying FreeBSD advocate --- IN that context, it is the BSD that should be considered, not the prefix. http

BUDS Coming to you soon.

1999-05-13 Thread Jesus Monroy
community could use this project for whatever they wanted. [5] The Digital Marshalls are: Terje Oseberg, programmer extraordinare from SRI Jonathan Walters, gopher and head pipe cleaner Jesus Monroy, hack and annoying FreeBSD advocate --- IN that context, it is the BSD that should be considered