From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Subject: Re: buddy system inventor
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From: Momchil Velikov <velco@fadata.bg>
Date: 14 Nov 2002 19:38:03 +0200
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>>>>> "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 ...
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