From: dot@dotat.at (Tony Finch)
Subject: [TUHS] Harvard and Von Neumann Architectures and Unix
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 14:50:04 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1711271445360.4416@grey.csi.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6b6fd55e-d1f9-5ee2-42ac-309d6b2923b3@gmail.com>
Will Senn <will.senn at gmail.com> wrote:
> In my naive understanding, the PDP-11 itself, with the Unibus and
> apparently agnostic ISA seem to summarily reject the Harvard
> Architecure...
>
> My question is - was there tension around Harvard and Von Neumann
> architectures in Unix circles and if so, how was it resolved?
Well, there were PDP-11 models with split instruction and data address
spaces, so you could address 64K of code and 64K of data without overlays.
Tony.
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-24 19:25 Will Senn
2017-11-24 19:28 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-11-27 14:50 ` Tony Finch [this message]
2017-11-24 21:43 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-24 21:50 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-11-25 21:55 ` William Cheswick
2017-11-25 23:15 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-24 22:20 ` Mike Markowski
2017-11-24 22:31 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-11-25 3:14 Doug McIlroy
2017-11-25 4:16 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-11-25 5:17 ` ron minnich
2017-11-25 14:23 ` Ralph Corderoy
2017-11-25 14:24 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-25 15:58 ` Lawrence Stewart
2017-11-25 16:10 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-11-25 19:59 ` Steve Simon
2017-11-25 21:59 ` Bakul Shah
2017-11-25 17:34 Doug McIlroy
2017-11-27 16:11 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-27 16:50 ` Larry McVoy
2017-11-27 17:08 ` Clem Cole
2017-11-27 18:21 ` Lawrence Stewart
2017-11-27 18:30 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2017-11-27 18:14 ` Warner Losh
2017-11-27 18:26 ` Paul Winalski
2017-11-27 17:35 ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-11-28 14:55 ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-11-28 19:45 ` Paul Winalski
2017-11-27 17:11 Noel Chiappa
2017-11-28 0:23 ` Dave Horsfall
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