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Subject: Re: processor affinity
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On Maw, 2004-09-28 at 17:02, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> >>http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r=2&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ptxt&s1=merkey.INZZ.&OS=IN/merkey&RS=IN/merkey
> >Wow, I never knew about that.
> >
> >But guess who wrote the affinity system calls? :)

> I wrote them first, and coined the term. 

Cute but GCOS3 had affinity syscalls for batch processing in the 1970's
and I don't believe it was original even then.