From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: doug@cs.dartmouth.edu (Doug McIlroy) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 07:31:54 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] !mail tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org Message-ID: <201801221231.w0MCVsjq019507@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> Re: [TUHS] Kernel Sizes > I've often thought that LSX was V5 'regressed' to the concepts of > V1, which was facing similar hardware constraints. Is that a > reasonable view? > LSX has a maximum of three processes that are swapped > in and out in a stack-like fashion. Only one process is ever in core. > Is that how V1 was organized? The rocess limit was higher in V1. And V1 was a time-sharing system; for which LIFO swapping is inappropriate. So LSX seems to have "regressed" to some pre-Unix state. doug