Todd Cohen <cohentl@clarkson.edu> writes:
> Ok, I've seen this mentioned many times, and I just can't figure out what
> soft update is.. can someone please enlighten me? :)

The original paper about soft updates is at
<http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~ganger/papers/CSE-TR-254-95/>

and a paper about the BSD implementation was presented at the 1999
USENIX Annual Technical Conference, see
<http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix99/mckusick.html>

/assar