object references/memory access

[Alex Martelli]

Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
   ...
>       Think VMS was the most applicable for that behavior... Haven't seen
> any dynamic priorities on the UNIX/Linux/Solaris systems I've
> encountered...

Dynamic priority scheduling is extremely common in Unixen today (and has
been for many years); see e.g.
<http://www.acmqueue.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=220>
for the _enhancements_ FreeBSD 5.2 brought to this idea a few years ago,
for example.


Alex