In article <20031227114834.GD274@drowsy.duskware.de>, Martin Husemann wrote:
>
> So what would be far more interesting than a pointer to a news
> article bringing this up in marketing speech to the masses, would be
> a pointer to a paper describing the details.

You might be interested in Jeff Roberson's paper on the FreeBSD 5
scheduler:

  http://www.chesapeake.net/~jroberson/ULE.pdf