Re: PDP-11 [Was: Memory management]

From	Stan Barr <plan.b@dsl.pipex.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.forth
Subject	Re: PDP-11 [Was: Memory management]
Date	2012-05-15 15:21 +0000
Organization	Stochastic Blue-sky Research
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On Sun, 13 May 2012 07:46:58 -0700 (PDT), Mark Wills 
<markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On May 13, 3:18 pm, Andrew Haley <andre...@littlepinkcloud.invalid>
> wrote:
>> Paul Rubin <no.em...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>> > I remember reading early Unix on the PDP-11/20 had no protection at
>> > all, and it was easy to crash the whole multi-user box by accident.
>>
>> Just as an aside, the PDP-11 was a superb Forth target.  A lot of
>> primitives were two or three instructions, and the interrupt structure
>> and the I/O subsystem were very well-designed; it is certainly the
>> nicest polyFORTH system I have used.  It's worth noting the
>> performance advantage you can get from I/O hardware that is really
>> straightforward: for example, it was possible to handle a serial
>> interrupt with just a few instructions.  This made it possible to
>> handle many terminals on what was a pretty small machine.
>>
>> Andrew.
>
> It's a shame this stuff isn't documented anywhere. I find the old
> stuff very interesting!

Most PDP-11 stuff is well documented online.  Bitsavers is a good
place to start.  http://www.bitsavers.org/

Some of us still run PDP-11s and PDP-11 FIG-Forth - under RT-11 in 
my case.

-- 
Cheers,
Stan Barr     plan.b .at. dsl .dot. pipex .dot. com

The future was never like this!

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Memory management Zbiggy <zbigniew2011REMOVE@gmail.REMOVE.com> - 2012-04-10 21:56 +0100
  Re: Memory management "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-04-10 10:18 -1000
    Re: Memory management Zbiggy <zbigniew2011REMOVE@gmail.REMOVE.com> - 2012-04-10 22:43 +0100
      Re: Memory management "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-04-10 11:38 -1000
        Re: Memory management Zbiggy <zbigniew2011REMOVE@gmail.REMOVE.com> - 2012-04-11 10:33 +0100
          Re: Memory management Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-04-11 02:35 -0700
            Re: Memory management Zbiggy <zbigniew2011REMOVE@gmail.REMOVE.com> - 2012-04-11 12:20 +0100
              Re: Memory management Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-04-11 08:41 -0700
                Re: Memory management David Thompson <dave.thompson2@verizon.net> - 2012-05-13 00:08 -0400
                PDP-11 [Was: Memory management] Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-05-13 09:18 -0500
                Re: PDP-11 Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-05-14 01:09 -0700
                Re: PDP-11 Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-05-14 01:19 -0700
                Re: PDP-11 [Was: Memory management] Mark Wills <markrobertwills@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-05-13 07:46 -0700
                Re: PDP-11 [Was: Memory management] Andrew Haley <andrew29@littlepinkcloud.invalid> - 2012-05-15 03:27 -0500
                Re: PDP-11 [Was: Memory management] Albert van der Horst <albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl> - 2012-05-15 11:30 +0000
                Re: PDP-11 [Was: Memory management] Stan Barr <plan.b@dsl.pipex.com> - 2012-05-15 15:21 +0000
            Re: Memory management Nomen Nescio <nobody@dizum.com> - 2012-04-11 21:35 +0200
  Re: Memory management BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2012-04-10 14:59 -0700
    Re: Memory management Zbiggy <zbigniew2011REMOVE@gmail.REMOVE.com> - 2012-04-11 10:39 +0100
      Re: Memory management stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2012-04-11 09:53 +0000
        Re: Memory management Zbiggy <zbigniew2011REMOVE@gmail.REMOVE.com> - 2012-04-11 12:15 +0100
          Re: Memory management stephenXXX@mpeforth.com (Stephen Pelc) - 2012-04-11 10:59 +0000
          Re: Memory management "Elizabeth D. Rather" <erather@forth.com> - 2012-04-11 07:44 -1000
            Re: Memory management Zbiggy <zbigniew2011REMOVE@gmail.REMOVE.com> - 2012-04-11 20:50 +0100
              Re: Memory management Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2012-04-11 11:54 -0700
                Re: Memory management Zbiggy <zbigniew2011REMOVE@gmail.REMOVE.com> - 2012-04-11 21:03 +0100
              Re: Memory management vandys@vsta.org - 2012-04-11 19:09 +0000
                Re: Memory management Zbiggy <zbigniew2011REMOVE@gmail.REMOVE.com> - 2012-04-11 21:48 +0100
                Re: Memory management Jecel <jecel@merlintec.com> - 2012-05-15 10:04 -0700
                Re: Memory management vandys@vsta.org - 2012-05-15 17:29 +0000
                Re: Memory management "A. K." <akk@nospam.org> - 2012-05-15 20:41 +0200
              Re: Memory management BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2012-04-11 12:33 -0700
                Re: Memory management Zbiggy <zbigniew2011REMOVE@gmail.REMOVE.com> - 2012-04-11 21:53 +0100
                Re: Memory management BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2012-04-11 13:43 -0700
              Re: Memory management Tarkin <tarkin000@gmail.com> - 2012-05-13 21:20 -0700
      Re: Memory management BruceMcF <agila61@netscape.net> - 2012-04-11 04:51 -0700

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