29 Aug
2019
29 Aug
'19
12:34 a.m.
On Wed, Aug 28, 2019, 12:27 PM Warner Losh <imp(a)bsdimp.com> wrote:
On Wed, Aug 28, 2019, 11:57 AM Doug McIlroy <doug(a)cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
Is there a paper on this work?
Found the 32V paper, but this was still a swapping implementation if I'm
reading correctly. I thought that the virtual memory was added by BSD /
Bill Joy. That would explain why V8 was BSD 4.1 based, since it was the
first usable Vax port with VM.
Warner
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.