13 May
2025
13 May
'25
9:58 p.m.
On Mon, May 12, 2025 at 12:21 PM Noel Chiappa <jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:
I wonder if this is an early predecessor to the overlay stuff in BSD 2.9
(and
later BSD's)?
Unlikely. The BSD overlay stuff was based on Fred Cantor work at DEC in
the TIG group in Merrimack, NH that did V7m and later Ultrix11.
Fred's code works on 11/40 as well as 11/45 class processors, where as by
the time of 2.11BSD they dropped the 11/40 support.
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