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From: Momchil Velikov <velco@fadata.bg>
To: Nikita Danilov <Nikita@Namesys.COM>
Cc: Hai Huang <haih@eecs.umich.edu>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: buddy system inventor
Date: 14 Nov 2002 19:35:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y97wt5pp.fsf@merlin.maxx.bg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15827.56145.430393.208400@laputa.namesys.com>

>>>>> "Nikita" == Nikita Danilov <Nikita@Namesys.COM> writes:

    Nikita> Hai Huang writes:
    >> Who is its inventor?  Any knows?

    Nikita> "Unix Internals" gives a reference to

    Nikita> Peterson J.L., and Norman T.A., "Buddy Systems,"
    Nikita> Communications of the ACM, Vol. 20, No. 6, Jun. 1977,
    Nikita> pp. 421-431

I believe Knuth in TAOCP is earlier, like 1973 IIRC.

~velco


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  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-14 17:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-14 17:08 buddy system inventor Hai Huang
2002-11-14 17:20 ` Nikita Danilov
2002-11-14 17:35   ` Momchil Velikov [this message]
2002-11-14 17:38     ` Momchil Velikov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-11-14 23:11 znmeb
2002-11-15 15:21 ` M. Edward Borasky

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