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From: Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.co.uk>
To: scj@yaccman.com
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Early multiprocessor Unix
Date: Sun, 06 Aug 2023 10:57:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230806095717.0D9BA220FE@orac.inputplus.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4726704a3c0e056d6e4d5dd1dc582116@yaccman.com>

Hi Steve,

> We built an "editor" for a.out files that would read the file in,
> respond to a series of requests, relocate the instructions correctly,
> and then branch to the line of code that it had been about to execute.  

What level of granuality were these requests?  Could you give a rough
example or two.  Was it sed like, with labels and testing branches?  Did
the requests operate on matched instructions instead of lines?

-- 
Cheers, Ralph.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-08-06  9:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-28 13:24 [TUHS] " Paul Ruizendaal
2022-11-28 13:42 ` [TUHS] " Larry Stewart
2022-11-28 14:05 ` Clem Cole
2022-11-28 14:13   ` Clem Cole
2022-11-28 14:19     ` Warner Losh
2023-08-06 14:19     ` Warner Losh
2022-11-28 14:16   ` Warner Losh
2022-11-28 14:50     ` Clem Cole
2022-11-28 16:30   ` Paul Winalski
2022-11-28 16:49     ` Clem Cole
2023-08-06 14:12   ` Warner Losh
2022-11-28 16:52 ` Jonathan Gray
2022-11-29  9:39 ` Jonathan Gray
2022-11-29 15:54   ` [TUHS] First supercomputer UNIX: The Denelcor HEP (was Early multiprocessor Unix) Ron Natalie
2022-11-29 17:00     ` [TUHS] " Jon Steinhart
2022-11-29 20:53     ` steve jenkin
2023-08-05 23:00 ` [TUHS] Re: Early multiprocessor Unix scj
2023-08-06  0:54   ` Larry McVoy
2023-08-06  6:52   ` Paul Ruizendaal
2023-08-06  9:28   ` Ronald Natalie
2023-08-06  9:57   ` Ralph Corderoy [this message]
2022-11-30  2:55 Rudi Blom

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