[TUHS] Split addressing (I/D) space (inspired by the death of the python... thread)
Dave Horsfall
dave at horsfall.org
Fri Aug 4 09:08:55 AEST 2023
On Thu, 3 Aug 2023, Clem Cole wrote:
> For whatever its worth, even with 4M the kernel had started to become a
> problem for V7 on an 11/70. Data buffers eat a lot of memory.
We at UNSW had a kludge for that; the global symbol "b" (similar to "u")
was mapped by KISA5 into the current buffer header. Having dozens of
buffers on a 40-class machine was really something...
-- Dave
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