On Sun, Mar 12, 2000 at 07:07:36PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> A lot of operating systems are designed around priority levels because
> that is how a lot of early hardware worked.. And because a lot of OS's
> have that notion, the hardware tends to be designed for it. A bad circle.
And similarly for sectors on disks.
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