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From: david@outrigger.awdpa.ibm.com
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Subject: Re: shared memory under AOS4.3??
Message-ID: <1990Aug28.171103.2269@panews>
Date: 28 Aug 90 17:11:03 GMT
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In article <1990Aug28.012633.28332@odin.corp.sgi.com> jsw@xhead.esd.sgi.com (Jeff Weinstein) writes:
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>	The code in xtrek to do shared memory uses a little known hack
>	in the kernel to support X10 on the IBM AED display.

Didn't X10 also use shared memory for server<->client communication?

I seem to recall the Brown guys describing their implementation as
"an exercise in avoinding system calls".

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