Do OS's slow down with age? (was: DDJ article / UNIX vs BS/2)

[Jacob Gore]

/ comp.unix.questions / gregg at ihlpb.ATT.COM (Wonderly) / Jan 13, 1989 /
>I wrote a long term scheduler ...
>It separates the users into two groups, those at base prio 4 and those
>at base prio 5.  When it determines that you are busy with the CPU, it
>will put you into the 4 group.  When you become idle again it puts you
>back into the 5 group (login interactive base prio is 5).

Interesting.  Isn't this what the floating priority (don't remember the VMS
term) is supposed to do?

Jacob Gore				Gore at EECS.NWU.Edu
Northwestern Univ., EECS Dept.		{oddjob,gargoyle,att}!nucsrl!gore