16 Dec
2024
16 Dec
'24
1:02 a.m.
On 12/15/24 4:43 AM, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
At 2024-12-15T07:22:29+0000, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
Maybe I would, in fact, hate using Multics. But I
can't forget that
well after Unix had fledged, its developers at CSRC found it necessary
and/or desirable to borrow back a Multics concept: they named it mmap().
I think it was primarily inspired by TENEX/TOPS-20, and it was the CSRG
who proposed it. The concepts are described in CSRG TR/4 and mmap()
ended up described in the 4.2BSD manual, but not implemented.
I don't think Reiser's VM system at the Labs included mmap(), but I think
it did have something similar. Of course, that never really saw the light
of day.
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