[TUHS] 2.11 BSD question... (exe sizes)

[Jason Stevens]

>
>
> The PDP-11 is inherently a 16-bit-pointer machine; it has no concept
> of 32-bit pointers, so it is always either in the x86 small or the x86
> tiny model.


I guess it's logical that after the years, intel could at least make *some*
improvements....


> On DEC's operating systems, you could indeed set up overlays
> that allowed code to be swapped in and out, either to disk or to unmapped
> physical memory (much quicker!)  However, AFAIK ld(1) never provided that
> capability to userspace, although the technique is used inside the kernel.
> In any case, such tricks don't help with data space, which is strictly
> limited to 64K.
>

And that pretty much seals the deal.  Oh well, it's amazing how big things
have grown over the years....!



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>


Thanks anyways!

Jason
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