Re: buddy system inventor

Momchil Velikov
2002-11-14T17:38:03Z

>>>>> "Momchil" == Momchil Velikov <velco@fadata.bg> writes:

>>>>> "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

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

Or even 1968 ...