From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem Cole) Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 19:23:07 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] v6tar from v7 on v6, too large? In-Reply-To: <20151209224751.GC20697@mercury.ccil.org> References: <20151209221624.B27CC18C0C9@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <20151209224751.GC20697@mercury.ccil.org> Message-ID: On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 5:47 PM, John Cowan wrote: > I thought "ld" stood for Link eDitor. :-) > ​I have never heard that justification. It's always been talked about as the "loader" communications I had with different folks including Dennis. In the early/mid '70s the person that introduced me to Unix (tjk) always called it the loader.​ Ted was (like many of us in those days) coming from either IBM's TSS or MTS, and influenced by IBM's terminology as well as DECs. > On OS/8 there > ​ ​ > were four linkers, one for each compiler: ABSLDR, LOAD, LOADER, > and LINK. LINK was for the macro assembler, the last one published. > ​I used TSS/8 and I've forgotten what is was called there, never used OS/8. In TOPS and Tenex land it was called a linker, as it was on TSS and MTS. > I don't remember the story on the various PDP-11 DEC OSes; > ​RT-11, DOS-11 and RSX all called it a linker.​ > by VMS days > ​ ​ > it was exclusively LINK. > ​As the author of VMS's link and later versions, I'll try to ask Paul tomorrow what he knows/remembers. In my presence, he has b*tched about Unix calling it a 'loader.​ ​' Clem ​ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: