[TUHS] PDP-7 Unix Paper

[Larry McVoy]

On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 10:30:52AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> I'm still astonished at the constraints those guys had to suffer:
> 
>     PDP-7 Unix provided a multitasking environment by dividing the 8K
>     words of memory into two halves.  The lower half of memory was
>     reserved for the kernel.  The upper half of memory was set aside for
>     the currently running process.
> 
> But you try and tell the young people today that... and they won't believe
> you.

Don't even get me started.  Young people think that a VM is a server.
I wrote a microbenchmark suite, lmbench, and I get people sending me
email that they get inconsistent results on their VM.

The lack of knowledge that would make someone ask about that is stunning.