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This book is a for systems programmers, OS researchers, and anyone interested in low-level Unix kernel internals, especially regarding SMP (Symmetric Multi-Processing), scalability, and caching . Despite being from 1994, its concepts are still highly relevant. Unix systems in 1994 featured: : View document
If you read this PDF (and it still languishes on a dusty bitsavers.org mirror), it doesn’t preach the Unix we know. It preaches a war . The core argument is a trilemma: especially regarding SMP (Symmetric Multi-Processing)
Open the PDF. Smell the bit-rot. Read the warnings. And remember: every mb() in your Linux kernel is a tombstone for a DEC Alpha that died so you could mmap() in peace.