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From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Warner's Early Unix Presentation
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 13:18:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.2002101316430.25433@grey.csi.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKzdPgxeqBaXgFEHE7tvxXa6ZywTYY-eCtcZUGRBzGQUsU6BHg@mail.gmail.com>

Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, Steve's memory allocation trick, mallocking on faults, isn't
> portable, and I suspect the code will never run on a modern OS.

I heard that one of the first things that each of the various 68000 ports
had to do was patch the shell to make its memory allocation less
adventurous.

Tony.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-02-10 13:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-07 22:25 Warren Toomey
2020-02-07 23:57 ` Rob Pike
2020-02-08  0:43   ` Warren Toomey
2020-02-08  3:37     ` Warner Losh
2020-02-08 15:15   ` Warner Losh
2020-02-08 21:50     ` Rob Pike
2020-02-08 22:29       ` Chet Ramey
2020-02-08 22:54         ` Rob Pike
2020-02-08 23:02           ` Chet Ramey
2020-02-08 23:11             ` Rob Pike
2020-02-08 23:13               ` Rob Pike
2020-02-08 23:21               ` Kurt H Maier
2020-02-08 23:26                 ` Rob Pike
2020-02-08 23:28                   ` Chet Ramey
2020-02-08 23:26               ` Chet Ramey
2020-02-08 23:29                 ` Rob Pike
2020-02-08 23:35                   ` Warner Losh
2020-02-08 23:36                   ` Chet Ramey
2020-02-08 23:54                     ` Rob Pike
2020-02-09  0:11                       ` Chet Ramey
2020-02-09  0:19                   ` Larry McVoy
2020-02-08 22:31       ` Richard Salz
2020-02-10 13:18       ` Tony Finch [this message]
2020-02-10 15:05       ` Dan Cross
2020-02-10 15:46         ` [TUHS] V9 shell [was Re: Warner's Early Unix Presentation] arnold
2020-02-10 18:39           ` Rob Pike
2020-02-10 18:59             ` Bakul Shah
2020-02-10 19:58             ` Angelo Papenhoff
2020-02-10 20:11               ` Chet Ramey
2020-02-11  9:33             ` arnold
2020-02-11  9:47               ` Noel Hunt
2020-02-11  9:47               ` Rob Pike
2020-02-11  9:59                 ` Rob Pike
2020-02-11 17:05                   ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-02-11 17:18                     ` Arthur Krewat
2020-02-11 18:22                     ` Kurt H Maier
2020-02-16 21:34                       ` Wesley Parish
2020-02-11 18:26                     ` Jon Steinhart
2020-02-11 23:56                       ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-02-12  0:12                         ` Jon Steinhart
2020-02-12  1:03                           ` [TUHS] V9 shell Warren Toomey
2020-02-12  5:54                           ` [TUHS] V9 shell [was Re: Warner's Early Unix Presentation] Rob Pike
2020-02-11 17:36                   ` Dan Cross
2020-02-11 18:35                   ` Christopher Browne
2020-02-11 18:54                     ` Rob Pike
2020-02-11 21:36                     ` Harald Arnesen

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