From: Henry Bent <henry.r.bent@gmail.com>
To: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: .globl directive -- is this a 35-bit constant?
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 15:56:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEdTPBfPxHmmC1Q_68AOFfc2HdrFC5w36pPBSSom+bBqrS_y+g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP6exYJATjcxcs7K22shHLKaZ9hYGsocnTJ6kc6BAOvLEFkOiA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 28 Mar 2024 at 15:44, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
Not entirely off track, netbsd at some point (still does?) ran on the
PDP-10.
Did it actually get all the way to booting? I remember the effort but I
believe that its abandonment reflected the difficulty of working with a 36
bit word in a modern operating system environment.
-Henry
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-28 19:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-28 19:44 [TUHS] " ron minnich
2024-03-28 19:48 ` [TUHS] " Tom Lyon
2024-03-28 19:55 ` ron minnich
2024-03-28 19:56 ` Henry Bent [this message]
2024-03-28 20:59 ` segaloco via TUHS
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