From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Reply-To: From: "M. Edward Borasky" Subject: RE: buddy system inventor Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 07:21:05 -0800 Message-ID: <000501c28cba$9e7dde90$73c463d8@dreambringer> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <200211142307.gAEN7PkN019536@franka.aracnet.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: 'Hai Huang' , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Knuth, "The Art of Computer Programming", Volume I, Second Edition, pages 460 - 461: "The 'buddy system' was first used by H. Markowitz in connection with the SIMSCRIPT programming system in 1963, and it was independently discovered and published by K. Knowlton, CACM 8 (1965), 623 - 625; see also CACM 9 (1966), 616 - 625." I'm more or less positive it was in use at IBM in Poughkeepsie, NY in the summer of 1962 when I started my first job there. So it was probably well known amongst programmers before Markowitz. Maybe the CACM articles have more information on its early history. Incidentally, H. Markowitz is Harry Markowitz, the father of Modern Portfolio Theory and IIRC a Nobel Economics Laureate. Is it too soon to nominate Linus Torvalds for a Nobel Prize in Economics? -- M. Edward (Ed) Borasky http://www.borasky-research.net mailto:znmeb@borasky-research.net Coaching - It's Not Just For Athletes Any More! Have you hugged your saguaro today? -----Original Message----- From: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org [mailto:owner-linux-mm@kvack.org] On Behalf Of znmeb@aracnet.com Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 3:12 PM To: Hai Huang; linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: buddy system inventor > Who is its inventor? Any knows? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/