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From: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] PDP-8 (was: 2.11BSD cross compiler)
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 06:50:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100930135029.GB30928@bitmover.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100930042229.GA66070@dereel.lemis.com>

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> >>  If you don't get the question you are not an OS person,
> >> if you are, of course you get it.
> 
> Hmm.  Am I expected to understand this?  Seriously, I don't know how
> many people really wrote anything like swtch ().

You'd be amazed at how many people did their own user level threads.
Gotta write swtch() for that.

And it's not swtch() so much as do you understand the stack frames?
If you could look at the stack frames and give me a stack trace
that's more or less the same thing.
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Larry McVoy                lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitkeeper.com



  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-30 13:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-28  5:54 [TUHS] 2.11BSD cross compiler Nick Downing
2010-09-29  0:24 ` Tim Newsham
2010-09-29  0:51   ` Larry McVoy
2010-09-29  2:14     ` John Cowan
2010-09-29  2:38       ` Larry McVoy
2010-09-29  2:59         ` John Cowan
2010-09-29  3:44           ` Larry McVoy
2010-09-30  4:22           ` [TUHS] PDP-8 (was: 2.11BSD cross compiler) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2010-09-30  4:53             ` John Cowan
2010-09-30 13:50             ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2010-10-02  3:46               ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2010-10-02 21:03                 ` Larry McVoy
2010-10-02 21:39                   ` [TUHS] PDP-8 M. Warner Losh
2010-10-02 10:06               ` [TUHS] PDP-8 (was: 2.11BSD cross compiler) Wolfgang Helbig
2010-09-29  3:14         ` [TUHS] 2.11BSD cross compiler M. Warner Losh
2010-09-29  3:17         ` Steve Nickolas
2010-09-29  3:55           ` Larry McVoy
2010-09-29  4:34             ` [TUHS] 6502 and swtch, was " Warren Toomey
2010-09-29  5:13               ` Steve Nickolas
2010-09-30 17:49               ` Tim Newsham
2010-09-29 20:54             ` [TUHS] " Peter Jeremy
2010-09-29 21:34               ` Larry McVoy

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