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From: Bakul Shah <bakul@iitbombay.org>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: UNIX on (not quite bare) System/370
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2022 19:27:21 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AAF561BE-96A2-439F-9363-95F178806A76@iitbombay.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221220030942.GR4401@mcvoy.com>

On Dec 19, 2022, at 7:09 PM, Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:
> 
> Berkeley didn't really have a good VM system, other than Bill Joy
> imagining it and then went on to go to Sun and inspired Joe Moran
> to implement it.

The context I was interested in is the VAX and early 80s.
The following paper by Özalp Baboğlu & Bill Joy describes
the BSD design in some detail.

http://roguelife.org/~fujita/COOKIES/HISTORY/3BSD/design.pdf

> FreeBSD took Mach's VM system and while I have respect for what 
> Mach was trying to do, holy moly, what a mess.

FreeBSD came much later. 1994 or so. 


  reply	other threads:[~2022-12-20  3:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-19 17:38 [TUHS] " Phil Budne
2022-12-19 18:53 ` [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
2022-12-19 21:01   ` Clem Cole
2022-12-19 21:19     ` Rob Pike
2022-12-19 22:15       ` segaloco via TUHS
2022-12-20  0:02         ` Brad Spencer
2022-12-20  1:04           ` Adam Thornton
2022-12-20  2:35             ` segaloco via TUHS
2022-12-20 14:25           ` Andrew Hume
2022-12-19 23:02       ` Clem Cole
2022-12-20  1:20         ` Larry Stewart
2022-12-20  1:33           ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-20  1:57             ` George Michaelson
2022-12-20  2:06               ` Dan Cross
2022-12-20 15:04                 ` Chet Ramey
2022-12-20  2:12               ` Adam Thornton
2022-12-20 15:29                 ` Andy Kosela
2022-12-20 15:35                   ` Adam Thornton
2022-12-21  2:43                     ` Luther Johnson
2022-12-20 23:18                 ` David Arnold
2022-12-20  2:52       ` Bakul Shah
2022-12-20  3:09         ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-20  3:27           ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2022-12-20  3:48           ` Warner Losh
2022-12-20  4:21           ` Jonathan Gray
2022-12-19 21:36 ` Marc Donner
2022-12-19 22:52   ` Charles H Sauer (he/him)
     [not found]   ` <01428a75-3507-7b8a-fd35-cef74c8c0bd2@ucsb.edu>
2022-12-20  1:49     ` [TUHS] Re: pre-1991 USENIX proceedings Marc Donner
2022-12-20  3:11 ` [TUHS] Re: UNIX on (not quite bare) System/370 Warner Losh
2022-12-20  8:56 ` arnold
2022-12-20  9:31   ` segaloco via TUHS
2022-12-20  9:39     ` arnold
2022-12-20  9:55       ` Jonathan Gray
2022-12-20 14:27     ` Clem Cole
2022-12-23  1:53       ` Rob Gingell
2022-12-22 19:00 ` Andrew Hume
2022-12-20 22:25 Noel Chiappa
2022-12-20 23:18 ` Bakul Shah
2022-12-22 17:26 Noel Chiappa
2022-12-22 17:33 ` Dan Cross
2022-12-22 20:25 ` Warner Losh
2022-12-22 23:06   ` Warner Losh

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