[TUHS] 2.9bsd with networking on 18-bit possible?
Noel Chiappa
jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Thu Dec 13 00:14:18 AEST 2018
> From: Paul Ruizendaal
> project to make V6 run with the Gurwitz TCP stack on a TI990 clone
> (which is pretty similar to a PDP11).
Neat!
> the code size is about 25KB for both a minimal V6 kernel and the TCP
> stack, the rest is data.
That's impressively small; the MIT V6+ with 'demux only in the kernel' was
40KB for the combined code (although I can't easily get separate figures for
the networking part and the rest).
> The Gurwitz code also has an Ethernet driver (note ARP was not invented
> yet)
How did it get Ethernet addresses?
Noel
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