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From: jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa)
Subject: [TUHS] Had a crack at assembling the Unix v1 kernel
Date: Tue,  5 May 2015 08:24:33 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150505122433.D74B118C0C5@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> (raw)

    > From: Mark Longridge

    > I'm not sure where Unix v1 is loading the kernel from. 

    > From: Warren Toomey

    > Have a look here: https://code.google.com/p/unix-jun72/

Thanks for the pointer! From poking around there, it looks like V1 had
special 'cold boot' and 'warm boot' disk partitions.

I wonder why they lost the 'warm boot' capability in later versions? Maybe it
became reliable enough that the extra complexity of supporting it wasn't
worth it?

	Noel



             reply	other threads:[~2015-05-05 12:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-05 12:24 Noel Chiappa [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-05-04 21:48 Noel Chiappa
2015-05-05 17:35 ` Ronald Natalie
2015-05-04 20:44 Noel Chiappa
2015-05-04 21:04 ` Dave Horsfall
2015-05-05  0:29   ` Mark Longridge
2015-05-04 20:23 Mark Longridge
2015-05-04 21:55 ` Warren Toomey

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