This is not an original thought, but I write with some authority here. I hacked Unix kernel code out of grad school at SGI, in SGI's "good old days" (1985-1992). Among other things, we took single-threaded (ST) kernel code and multi-threaded (MT) it on SGI's SMP boxes. I won a free trip to New Zealand and Australia in 1990 along with Bent Hagemark, with kernel source on magtape in our hot little h