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From: vdlinden@fwi.uva.nl (Frank van der Linden)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: BSD vs. LINUX
Date: 12 Dec 1994 23:05:35 GMT
Organization: FWI, University of Amsterdam
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References: <KSTAILEY.94Dec8195010@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov> <maericksD0Mu2u.Dpy@netcom.com> <3cfsi7$eab@nkosi.well.com> <KSTAILEY.94Dec11185301@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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kstailey@leidecker.gsfc.nasa.gov (Kenneth Stailey) writes:
>Unified buffer cache (but AIX had it first).
Hm, I thought that Sun were among the first to do that (at the time
that they implemented the mmap(2) interface which did not make it into
4.2BSD). Must have been 1985-1987 that they did that.
About Linux making Unix popular with the crowd: they certainly have done
that. "Linux is to the Unix community what AOL is to the Internet". Whether
this is a good thing or not is open for anybody to interpret 8-)
Frank
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Frank van der Linden vdlinden@fwi.uva.nl
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