[rescue] Closet cleaning IV

Geoffrey S. Mendelson gsm at mendelson.com
Sat Sep 13 13:10:14 CDT 2003


Andrew Weiss wrote:
> Well I got this yesterday... and man I have to say I am now a true 
> believe in all things VAX.  I was reading through the architecture 
> stuff alone and there is stuff in there that Linux is just now trying 
> to add. (re: a recent Linux Journal article on events based kernel 
> scheduling for Telecom and real-time applications)... and this book is 
> a VAX book from 1982.  Preemptive multi-tasking, demand paged virtual 
> memory, etc. etc. etc.

And IBM had them in CP/67 circa 1968.

Geoff.

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