[TUHS] .globl directive -- is this a 35-bit constant?

Henry Bent henry.r.bent at gmail.com
Fri Mar 29 05:57:05 AEST 2024


On Thu, 28 Mar 2024 at 15:44, ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:
Not entirely off track, netbsd at some point (still does?) ran on the
PDP-10.

Did it actually get all the way to booting?  I remember the effort but I
believe that its abandonment reflected the difficulty of working with a 36
bit word in a modern operating system environment.

-Henry

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