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From: jpd@usl-pc.usl.edu (DugalJP)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Reducing system calls overhead
Message-ID: <29@usl-pc.usl.edu>
Date: 6 Sep 88 15:55:37 GMT
References: <21606@ccicpg.UUCP> <1316@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Reply-To: jpd@usl-pc.UUCP (DugalJP)
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In article <1316@ast.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
...
>I would suggest you look closely at MULTICS and OS/2, which uses many ideas
>taken straight from MULTICS.  In these systems, the entire operating system is
>contained within the address space of each user process, with appropriate
...

I've been a systems analyst on our Multics system for 13 years now, and
OS/2 does indeed have great possibilities, BUT only when the superior
features of the 386 processor are used.  Doesn't OS/2 use only techniques
possible on the 286?


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