7 Jan
2015
7 Jan
'15
5:17 p.m.
On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Noel Chiappa <jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:
I'm not sure that anything actually used the fact
that 407 was 'br .+020',
by
the V6 era; I think it was just left over from older Unixes (where it was
not
in fact stripped on loading). Not just on executables running under Unix;
the
boot-loader also stripped it, so it wasn't even necessary to strip the
a.out
header off /unix.
If you look at the first edition code that Warren has, that seems to
support it.
Clem