[rbanffy]

> Aegis was inspired by MULTICS, not Unix, and was definitely a better system. They were demand-paging across the network in the early '80s.

I’d love to see one of those operating. We have lost so many great ideas we seem to never revisit…

[ncmncm]

Another was a read() system call that would copy into a caller-supplied buffer if it had to, but would normally just return a pointer into its buffer cache.

[ncmncm]

I know somebody who has some. You sort of need more than one so the token has somewhere to go.