[TUHS] UNIX on (not quite bare) System/370

Bakul Shah bakul at iitbombay.org
Tue Dec 20 13:27:21 AEST 2022


On Dec 19, 2022, at 7:09 PM, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
> 
> Berkeley didn't really have a good VM system, other than Bill Joy
> imagining it and then went on to go to Sun and inspired Joe Moran
> to implement it.

The context I was interested in is the VAX and early 80s.
The following paper by Özalp Baboğlu & Bill Joy describes
the BSD design in some detail.

http://roguelife.org/~fujita/COOKIES/HISTORY/3BSD/design.pdf

> FreeBSD took Mach's VM system and while I have respect for what 
> Mach was trying to do, holy moly, what a mess.

FreeBSD came much later. 1994 or so. 



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