>are fairly fine points. We could, for example, live with the fixed size
>buffer cache, if we needed to, but there are performance advantages to
>the dynamically sized buffer cache and variable size buffers. Similarily
>Linus is talking about allowing a 3.75 Gb/process address space, increased
>from the 64Mb that we currently have. The vast majority of people do not need
>more than 64Mb - those that do will have to wait.
>
Also note that the new system means we go to one page dir/table
per process, rather than the one per system we have now. The net
effects will be that
1. The 64 process limit will be removed
2. Each 386VM task (ie, DOS emulator) can have the first 1M + 64K in
virtual memory like it needs
I'm sure a lot of people would benefit from the later.
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Microsoft is responsible for propogating the evils it calls DOS and Windows,
IBM for AIX (appropriately called Aches by those having to administer it), but neither is as bad as AT&T. Boycott AT&T, and let them know how you feel.