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

[Warner Losh]

On Wed, Aug 28, 2019, 12:27 PM Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

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> On Wed, Aug 28, 2019, 11:57 AM Doug McIlroy <doug at cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
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>> > How long was research running on a PDP-11 and when did they move to a
>> VAX?
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>> 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.
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> Is there a paper on this work?
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Found the 32V paper, but this was still a swapping implementation if I'm
reading correctly. I thought that the virtual memory was added by BSD /
Bill Joy. That would explain why V8 was BSD 4.1 based, since it was the
first usable Vax port with VM.

Warner

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