1 Feb
2002
1 Feb
'02
4:27 p.m.
On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 07:51:41PM +0100, Johnny Billquist wrote:
I thought I only made one point, and that was that the
argument for V6
being easier to port because "286 protected mode gives a very similar
handling on memory management as the PDP did".
Rereading the mail - you did.
Sorry for getting the wrong end of the stick.
Since V6 and V7 both run on the PDP-11 it can
absolutely not be an
argument for preferring V6 to V7.
Thus I think it is a silly argument.
OK fair point - I respect your view.
The rest is purely speculative on my behalf, and I
really don't want to
debate wether V6 or V7 would be better to port.
I have a proper PDP-11 at home, and in addition, I run RSX, not Unix on
it. :-)
If I acquired a PDP-11 and wanted to take it home I suspect that the
missus would not be too pleased. Hence the PDP emulator and a bizarre
need to port to x86...
Paul