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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
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Rik van Riel wrote:
>> Together with the K42 people we found a way to avoid the
>> badnesses of an object-based VM.

On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 07:14:03PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> eek.  Please let's not tie the delivery of the 2.6 kernel to
> the success of this R&D effort.  We need reasonable-sized fixes, fast,
> for the current problems so that people who have feature work banked
> up can get going on it.
> Plus, staying close to the 2.4 rmap VM allows us to leverage the
> testing and experience which that has had, yes?

If this is the direction we're headed there are some tasks I won't
be able to get out of. I was ready for double and/or triple duty
anyway, though.


Cheers,
Bill
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