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From: tucker@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Andy Tucker)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Personal OS
Message-ID: <1990May30.171919.12793@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 30 May 90 17:19:19 GMT
References: <9437@pt.cs.cmu.edu> <36849@think.Think.COM> <1990May30.042930.9261@ico.isc.com>
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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In article <1990May30.042930.9261@ico.isc.com> rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
>barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
>[in response to complaints about overlays and overlay loaders]
>> Remember, the article was written in the early 80's, when VM on personal
>> computers was almost unthinkable...
>Something's wrong with the time scale here.

The Lampson&Sproull paper being referred to here ("An open operating
system for a single-user machine") was first presented at the 7th SOSP
in December 1979 (Operating Systems Review 13(5)).

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