[TUHS] dmr streams & networking [was: Re: If not Linux, then what?]

[Adam Thornton]

Interesting.  In my head, v7 is kind of the pinnacle of what you should run
on a PDP-11 (yes, I know 2.11BSD is still maintained), but that once you
add a networking stack, the 16-bit address limitations really start to
hurt, no matter how clever you are with your overlays.  But when I think of
v7, in my mind it's running on an 11/70.

I also find the multilayer switching described in the streams networking
implementation a lot like "inetd, all the way down."  That's kinda nifty.

Adam

On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 10:57 AM Doug McIlroy <doug at cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:

>
> > How long was research running on a PDP-11 and when did they move to a
> VAX?
>
> London and Reiser had ported Unix to the VAX, replete with virtual memory,
> in 1978. By the time v7 was released (1979), Vaxen had become the workhorse
> machines in Research.
>
> Doug
>
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