23 Dec
2022
23 Dec
'22
1:52 p.m.
Hi.
Phil Budne <phil(a)ultimate.com> wrote:
This fact alone indicates that the code predates V7; through V6 the
manual sections used Roman numerals. From V7 on they used Arabic
numerals.
FWIW,
Arnold
you'll
see that PWB1 accumulates the arguments in a chunk of swap space.
V6 _does_ use a disk buffer for this:
https://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V6/usr/sys/ken/sys1.c
So this is for V6.
1. My document is the programmers manual, with sections 1-8 (I through
VIII).