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From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Subject: [TUHS] PDP-11/70 SPL (was: Early non-Unix filesystems?)
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 07:03:13 +1100 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1603280700560.15730@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160327112543.EF59D18C0A3@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>

On Sun, 27 Mar 2016, Noel Chiappa wrote:

>     > why SPL should work that way.
> 
> So that when doing:
> 
> 	SPL	0
> 	WAIT
> 
> you don't lose by having the interrupt happen between the SPL and the WAIT?

That makes sense, and someone forgot to document it...

-- 
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."


  reply	other threads:[~2016-03-27 20:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-03-27 11:25 Noel Chiappa
2016-03-27 20:03 ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
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2016-03-28 13:50 Noel Chiappa
2016-03-28 14:32 ` William Pechter
2016-03-28 21:43 ` Dave Horsfall
     [not found] <mailman.167.1459043447.15972.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2016-03-27 10:05 ` Johnny Billquist
2016-03-27 19:59   ` Dave Horsfall

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