22 Oct
2012
22 Oct
'12
8:17 p.m.
yes, it's in the references here:
http://static.usenix.org/event/usenix04/tech/general/full_papers/cantrill/c…
i'm pretty sure i saw it in the solaris documentation that cantrill wrote
as well..
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 9:13 AM, Larry McVoy <lm(a)bitmover.com> wrote:
Go Bart. I took some classes from him in grad school
(I think, did
undergrad there as well), liked his style. Smart guy.
Do the dtrace guys credit Bart at all?
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 09:05:46AM -0500, A. P. Garcia wrote:
Yes, Bart Miller regarding "Fine-grained
dynamic instrumentation of
commodity operating sytem kernels":
ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/paradyn/papers/Tamches99FineGrained.pdf
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Larry McVoy <lm(a)bitmover.com> wrote:
> Which professor and which work? I'm guessing Bart.
>
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 08:01:44AM -0500, A. P. Garcia wrote:
> > I watched one he gave at a usenix conference where he sort of
recapped
> some
> > of the history of solaris and how oracle ruined everything and drove
away
> > all the talent. Whether he had a valid
point or not, it wasn't very
> > becoming. I don't know..it just never looks good when you air that
stuff
> > out in public.
> >
> > That said, it's hard to exaggerate the brilliance of dtrace. Like a
> > uw-madison professor said about some of the work that inspired it,
it's
> > like watching in fine detail the inner
parts of an engine move while
> going
> > down the highway at 60 mph.
> > On Oct 21, 2012 7:56 PM, "Larry McVoy" <lm(a)bitmover.com>
wrote:
> >
> > > Did anyone watch his talk? I just tried and couldn't make out
what he
> was
> > > talking about.
> > >
> > > Bryan's a smart guy but a little subjective. I spent a day
wandering
> > > around San Franciso with him (we
used to live within a few blocks
of
> > > each other) talking tech stuff,
hardware, os, etc. He was
completely
> > > rational, smart, insightful, until
we got to either sparc or
solaris.
> > > Then he was subjective as hell, he
just couldn't back away from
them
> > > enough to make an objective
comparison to other solutions.
> > >
> > > Funny thing was that so long as sparc/solaris weren't the subject
> matter
> > > he was very objective, could see the pros/cons of anything.
> > >
> > > I guess he drank the Sun koolaid.
> > >
> > >
> > > On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 11:51:20PM +0100, Sevan / Venture37 wrote:
> > > >
> > >
>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk8aZv0JJuk&feature=player_detailpage#t=…
> > > >
> > > > "SunOS has never run on a 16bit machine"
> > > >
> > > > My response was M68000 & 386 but his counter response was they
both
> > > > supported 32bit addressing.
> > > >
> > > > Sevan
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