[TUHS] Re: Split addressing (I/D) space (inspired by the death of the python... thread)

Will its a C Compiler switch (-i) and create 411 files instead of 407. I like to refer to it as the 17th address bit. I was first brought out with the 11/45 (which was SSI/MSI TTL), and the biggest differences between it and the 11/40.  They were both early 1970s and both of these processors were multiple boards. By 1976, the 780 has started and that sucked off most of the HW folks.   A new hire in 1976, Jeff Mitchell supposedly had a bet with Bill Strecker that he could implement an 11 on a single"hex high" CPU board if he got rid of the lights and switches.  He ran out of room to implement seperate I/D, so it became an 11/40 class [and it has an 8008-1 that runs the front panel]. The 11/70 came out between the 11/45 and the 34 and had a number of the STAR folks on it it original but it was also multiple boards.   It was not until 11/44 that DEC was able to make a hex height implementation of the 11 that managed to cram a full 11/70 into that system.   The later J-11 chip set took things beyond the 11/70. If you look at the conf directory in the sys sources for V6, you see m40.s and m45.s - but if you look at the link line of sys/run the 45 does not have -i; but if you look in sys/sys1.c you'll see the in the routine getxfile the support for 0407/0411/0405/0410 files for user mode. If you look at the conf directory in the sys sources for V7, you see mch.s and m45.s  its common and the makefile adds -i ᐧ On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 at 4:35 PM Will Senn <will.senn(a)gmail.com> wrote: Does unix (v7) know about the PDP-11 45's split I/D space through configuration or is it convention and programmer's responsibility to know and manage what's actually available? Will On 8/3/23 12:00, Rich Salz wrote: