[TUHS] Early supported UNIX manual
arnold at skeeve.com
arnold at skeeve.com
Fri Dec 23 17:52:23 AEST 2022
Hi.
Phil Budne <phil at ultimate.com> wrote:
> > you'll see that PWB1 accumulates the arguments in a chunk of swap space.
> > V6 _does_ use a disk buffer for this:
> >
> > https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V6/usr/sys/ken/sys1.c
> >
> > So this is for V6.
>
> 1. My document is the programmers manual, with sections 1-8 (I through
> VIII).
This fact alone indicates that the code predates V7; through V6 the
manual sections used Roman numerals. From V7 on they used Arabic
numerals.
FWIW,
Arnold
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