[TUHS] A PDP-10 used for UNIX just after the PDP-7?

Noel Chiappa via TUHS tuhs at tuhs.org
Sat Jan 17 05:23:33 AEST 2026


    > From: Matt G.

    > I presume everything would be in the kernel that touches hardware
    > memory management stuff?

I expect so. We know from Dennis' "A hardware story":

  https://www.nokia.com/bell-labs/about/dennis-m-ritchie/odd.html

that the KS11 took almost everything in the I/O space on the UNIBUS out of
the user's address space. The I/O space was where the KS11 registers were.

So, any fooling with the memory management by the user would have to have
been done by a system call - hopefully documented in the V2 manual, which we
have. I do't see any such system call (although break() may have played with
it).

	Noel


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