Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 00:17:32 +0100 From: Andrea Campi <andrea@webcom.it> To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Cc: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Core's function (was: The Project and onward [was: Re: cvscommit: src/sys/netinet ip_output.c]) Message-ID: <20010315001732.B552@webcom.it> In-Reply-To: <20010314020407.Y412@hand.dotat.at>; from dot@dotat.at on Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 02:04:07AM %2B0000 References: <20010313121002.F59348@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3794.984471257@critter> <20010313104930.C60817@daemon.ninth-circle.org> <20010313133108S.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> <3AAEA353.B31800B5@originative.co.uk> <20010314104739.A50356@gurney.reilly.home> <20010314104739.A50356@gurney.reilly.home> <200103140142.UAA42549@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20010314020407.Y412@hand.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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The dark ages were caused by the Y1K problem.
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