28 Aug
2019
28 Aug
'19
9:55 p.m.
Reiser added paging and it was working well by early 1981.
-rob
On Thu, Aug 29, 2019 at 4:41 AM Doug McIlroy <doug(a)cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
Sorry, what I said about London/Reiser is true, but not the whole story.
L/R didn't have demand paging; BSD did.
Doug
Doug McIlroy
<doug(a)cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
>
>> How long was research running on a PDP-11 and when did they move to a
VAX?
>
> London and Reiser had ported Unix to the VAX, replete with virtual
memory, in
1978. By the time v7 was released (1979), Vaxen had become the
workhorse machines in Research.
Doug
So, what's the story on why the London/Reiser port didn't get adapted
back by Research, and they ended up starting from 4.1 BSD?
Thanks,
Arnold