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From: npl@cbnewsi.att.com (nickolas.landsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.internals
Subject: Re: backwards scheduler?
Summary: what disp() stands for, maybe
Keywords: UNIX scheduler
Message-ID: <1990Oct10.173618.2154@cbnewsi.att.com>
Date: 10 Oct 90 17:36:18 GMT
References: <576@DIALix.UUCP> <8108@scolex.sco.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <8108@scolex.sco.COM>, chapman (Brian Chapman) writes:
> 4) Then when it somes time to run someone a routine called disp() [BTW
>    why is it called disp()?] is called that finds the highest priority

I believe that disp() was originally called the dispatcher, but
that portion of memory is so old, it's stale.

Nick Landsberg