[TUHS] Warner's Early Unix Presentation

Tony Finch dot at dotat.at
Mon Feb 10 23:18:45 AEST 2020


Rob Pike <robpike at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Unfortunately, Steve's memory allocation trick, mallocking on faults, isn't
> portable, and I suspect the code will never run on a modern OS.

I heard that one of the first things that each of the various 68000 ports
had to do was patch the shell to make its memory allocation less
adventurous.

Tony.
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