From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Nils M Holm" Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2018 10:12:53 +0200 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20181008081253.GB812@ananda.local> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [9fans] PDP11 (Was: Re: what heavy negativity!) Topicbox-Message-UUID: e8aaa148-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 2018-10-08T15:29:02+1100, Digby R.S. Tarvin wrote: > A native Inferno port would certainly be a lot easier, but I think you > might be a bit pessimistic about would can fit into a 64K address space > machine. The 11/70 certainly managed to run a very respectable V7 Unix > supporting 20-30 simultaneous active users in its day, [...] The 11/70 was a completely different beast than, say, an 11/03. The 70 had a backplane with 22 address lines, a MMU, and up to 4M bytes of memory. So while its processes were limited to 64K+64K bytes, I would not consider it to be a typical 16-bit machine. -- Nils M Holm < n m h @ t 3 x . o r g > www.t3x.org