From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa) Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 11:32:10 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [TUHS] Work I've done with a PDP-11 simulator Message-ID: <20140505153210.392EF18C0CE@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> > From: John Cowan > If you haven't already, see > et seqq. I had seen a later variant of that course; I wasn't aware that an earlier one used Unix; thanks for the pointer. It's a bit unfortunate (from my PoV) that in the Unix coverage they seemed to mostly focus on the low-level mechanics (e.g. how stacks are switched, etc, etc), and not on the (to me) more interesting lessons to be learned from V6 - most notably, how to get so much bang for so little buck! (I am convinced that one of the primary challenges facing computer science these days is control of complexity, but I don't want to get way off-topic, so I'll stop there.) Although I suppose things like that have to be covered at some point, and they might as well do it in V6 as in anything else! Noel