[TUHS] Had a crack at assembling the Unix v1 kernel

Noel Chiappa jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Tue May 5 22:24:33 AEST 2015


    > From: Mark Longridge

    > I'm not sure where Unix v1 is loading the kernel from. 

    > From: Warren Toomey

    > Have a look here: https://code.google.com/p/unix-jun72/

Thanks for the pointer! From poking around there, it looks like V1 had
special 'cold boot' and 'warm boot' disk partitions.

I wonder why they lost the 'warm boot' capability in later versions? Maybe it
became reliable enough that the extra complexity of supporting it wasn't
worth it?

	Noel



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