[so] SO quotes

[Bogdan Doinea]

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 9:12 PM, Razvan Deaconescu <
razvan.deaconescu at cs.pub.ro> wrote:

> Salut!
>
> Am primit un mesaj de la Bogdan Doinea referitor la un citat din Modern
> Operating Systems:
>
> "The UNIX system has a command, nice, which allows a user to
> voluntarily reduce the priority of his process, in order to be nice to
> the other users. Nobody ever uses it."
>
> Va mai ofer si eu doua din Operating System Concepts:
>
> "Certain options and features of a program may be used rarely. For
> instance, the routines on U.S. government computers that balance the
> budget have only recently been used." (Chapter 10 - Virtual memory)
>
> "An operating system is similar to a government. Like a government, it
> performs no useful function by itself". (Chapter 1 - Introduction)


And let's not forget:

MOS on first-come first-served alghorithm:
"The great strength of this algorithm is that it is easy to understand and
equally easy to program. It is also fair in the same sense that allocating
scarce sports or concert tickets to people who are willing to stand on line
starting at 2 A.M. is fair. "






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Bogdan Doinea
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