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- From: jsloan@ncar.ucar.edu (John Sloan)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.research
- Subject: Looking for paper on Andrew and UNIX
- Message-ID: <154kglINNci8@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 23:14:05 GMT
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- I'm hoping someone can help me track down a paper I enjoyed reading
- around 1986-88 or so. I dimly recall that it dealt with the problems
- the Andrew developers met when building on top of Berkeley UNIX. It
- included a lot of useful practitioner's design criteria they developed
- to, for example, avoid exhausting resources inside the UNIX kernel,
- etc.
-
- I've been through all the papers available via FTP on
- emsworth.andrew.cmu.edu, and neither those papers nor anything
- referenced in their bibliographies ring a bell. I've WAISed around the
- usual tech-report sources to no avail. And I spent an evening rummaging
- around in my hardcopy files and journals at home (hey, I'm desperate!).
-
- Papers that are _close_ to what I'm remembering (and are useful in their
- own right) are:
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- Howard et al., "Scale and Performance in a Distributed File
- System", ACM TOCS, Feb 88
-
- Morris, "'Make or Take' Decisions in Andrew", USENIX
- Proceedings, Feb 1988
-
- Treese, "Berkeley UNIX on 1000 Workstations: Athena Changes to
- 4.3BSD", ?
-
- Any pointers anyone can provide would be appreciated. It is always
- possible, given how long ago I think I read this paper, that I'm
- confusing it's existence or description with something else, so I know
- this is a long shot. Please email responses to jsloan@ncar.ucar.edu.
- Thanks in advance!
-
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