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From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Origins of the SGS (System Generation Software) and COFF (Common Object File Format)
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2023 13:07:01 +1100 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2302251302070.56283@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABH=_VRWFcpSPuC3CL9K5XO9AEYnOucV4k5+rp=koTEjn-RSFA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, 23 Feb 2023, Paul Winalski wrote:

> a.out was, as object file formats go, a throwback to the stone age from 
> the get-go.  Even the most primitive of IBM's link editors for 
> System/360 supported arbitrary naming of object file sections and the 
> ability for the programmer to arrange them in whatever order they 
> wished.  a.out's restriction to three sections (.text, .data, .bss) did 
> manage to get the job done, and even (with ZMAGIC) could support 
> demand-paged virtual memory, but only just.

That may be so, but those guys didn't exactly have the resources of
IBM behind them...

And I wonder how many people here know the significance of the "407" magic 
number?

-- Dave

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-02-25  2:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-22 20:16 [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
2023-02-22 22:20 ` [TUHS] " Clem Cole
2023-02-23  0:17   ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-02-23  6:30   ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-02-23 14:25     ` KenUnix
2023-02-23 19:37     ` Warner Losh
2023-02-24 17:01       ` Rich Salz
2023-02-23 16:49   ` Paul Winalski
2023-02-23 18:38     ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-02-23 20:40       ` Paul Winalski
2023-02-24 12:45     ` arnold
2023-02-24 13:13       ` Arno Griffioen via TUHS
2023-02-25 19:28         ` arnold
2023-02-25 19:34           ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-02-24 14:01       ` Harald Arnesen
2023-02-25  2:07     ` Dave Horsfall [this message]
2023-02-25 15:30       ` Clem Cole
2023-02-25 17:29         ` Paul Winalski
2023-02-23 15:13 Noel Chiappa
2023-02-23 21:37 Paul Ruizendaal
2023-02-23 22:11 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-02-24  0:07   ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-02-25 20:14 Brian Walden
2023-02-26 15:51 Paul Winalski

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