[TUHS] 8th Edition Research Unix on SIMH

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Thu Apr 27 09:21:58 AEST 2017


On Wed, 26 Apr 2017, Arthur Krewat wrote:

> Who hard-codes a file handle?

It was fairly common in the early days, when FDs were predictable.

> FD 3 would be the first FD opened after stdin, stdout, and stderr.

And given that it's writing something called "rom", it's probably a ROM 
image.

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