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| From | "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc, alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: Unix on x86, Hmmm ... Downloaded Xenix - But It's *41* Floppies Worth |
| Date | 2025-08-31 13:44 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <h5pdolx0lq.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> (permalink) |
| References | (1 earlier) <108k7rn$e12$4@news.misty.com> <108l4vk$77t$1@gal.iecc.com> <108su32$3e8$1@news.misty.com> <mhei7qFagenU1@mid.individual.net> <108tdf1$2a7v9$2@dont-email.me> |
Cross-posted to 2 groups.
On 2025-08-30 01:34, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > On 29 Aug 2025 20:52:10 GMT, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote: > >> In article <108su32$3e8$1@news.misty.com>, >> Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> wrote: >>> >>> But even more important, on the PDP-11, there is support for overlaid >>> programs, which makes heavy use of the MMU. > > No, it didn’t make use of the MMU at all. It was a purely software thing, > involving replacing in-memory parts of the program with other parts loaded > from the executable file. > >> My memory is that at leat for BSD Unix, overlays were not supported >> until um, 2.9BSD I think, and that using them was not at all >> straight-forward. It may have been easier for official DEC OSes... > > Using overlays was never straightforward, on any OS. It was trivial on Turbo Pascal. -- Cheers, Carlos.
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Re: Unix on x86, Hmmm ... Downloaded Xenix - But It's *41* Floppies Worth "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-09-01 20:15 +0200
Re: Unix on x86, Hmmm ... Downloaded Xenix - But It's *41* Floppies Worth "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-09-01 11:20 +0200
Re: Unix on x86, Hmmm ... Downloaded Xenix - But It's *41* Floppies Worth Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2025-08-30 11:49 +0200
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Re: Unix on x86, Hmmm ... Downloaded Xenix - But It's *41* Floppies Worth Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se> - 2025-08-31 12:40 +0200
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