From: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
To: TUHS main list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Book: "You Are Not Expected to Understand This"
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2022 09:14:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKH6PiXhVt6v_KSYcQjq=+rOORgd7d6NpftqTL+MYfW1b81y=g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
>> To be honest, I've forgotten many (most) of the details. But that sounds
>> about right. As I remember it, it was like SunOS. The key point was that
>> the kernel only had one view of the memory system period, no FS
>> buffer cache etc...which was a departure from many of the traditional UNIX
>> implementations. IIRC they did not support BSD's mmap -- but check the
> It sounds like they could have supported mmap() easily. I'd love to see
> this kernel, it sounds to me like it was SunOS with nicely done SMP
> support. The guy that said he'd never seen anything like it before or
> since, just makes me want to see it more.
"One view of the memory, period." That describes Multics.
Doug
next reply other threads:[~2022-11-14 14:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-14 14:14 Douglas McIlroy [this message]
2022-11-14 15:50 ` Clem Cole
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2022-11-14 16:58 Norman Wilson
2022-11-14 19:17 ` Larry McVoy
2022-11-14 19:50 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-11-13 0:02 [TUHS] " Dave Horsfall
2022-11-13 0:25 ` [TUHS] " Kenneth Goodwin
2022-11-13 1:12 ` Rob Pike
2022-11-13 1:52 ` Larry McVoy
2022-11-13 1:12 ` Stuff Received
2022-11-13 21:58 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-11-14 22:48 ` Dave Horsfall
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