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From: Nikita Danilov <Nikita@Namesys.COM>
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Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 20:20:17 +0300
Subject: Re: buddy system inventor
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Hai Huang writes:
 > Who is its inventor?  Any knows?

"Unix Internals" gives a reference to

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

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 > Hai

Nikita.

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