Re: buddy system inventor

[Momchil Velikov <velco@fadata.bg>]

>>>>> "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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