From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: rminnich@gmail.com (ron minnich) Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2017 19:55:02 +0000 Subject: [TUHS] shared memory on Unix In-Reply-To: <20170201194434.C5DE118C0E8@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> References: <20170201194434.C5DE118C0E8@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: Speaking of this, I remember at the 1980 usenix the discussion of how UCB folks had done a one wire change to allow MFPU (move from previous user space) to function in user mode, thus allowing a kind of weird not quite shared memory IPC. Good times, when you could rip open the machine and make it better ... ron On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 11:44 AM Noel Chiappa wrote: > > From: "Steve Johnson" > > > The meetings went on for over a year, but _I NEVER MET WITH THE SAME > > PERSON TWICE!_ It seemed that the only thing the marketing group knew > > how to do was reorganize the marketing group... > > Shades of SI:Electric-Marketing (I _think_ that was its name) on the > Symbolics > LISP Machine... > > (For those who never had the joy of seeing this, it randomly drew a bunch > of > boxes with people in them on the screen in a hierarchy, connected them, and > then started randomly moving the boxes around... I wonder if the source > still exists - or, better yet, a video of it running? Probably not, alas.) > > Noel > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: