26 Apr
2018
26 Apr
'18
1:01 a.m.
This is what we did at Fortune Systems for our 68k based v7 system.
There was an external “mmu” which added a base value to a 16 bit virtual
address to compute a physical address. And compared against a limit.
There were four base,limit pairs that you had to rewrite to context switch:
Text, data, spare and stack. At a minimum the system shipped with 256KB
so you could have a number of processes memory resident. You swapped
out a complete segment when you ran out of space.
I imagine other 16bit word size machines of that era used similar schemes.
On Apr 25, 2018, at 1:29 PM, Paul Winalski
<paul.winalski(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Some PDP-11 models had a virtual addressing feature called PLAS
(Program Logical Address Space). The PDP-11 had 16-bit addressing,
allowing for at most 64K per process. To take advantage of physical
memory larger than 64K, PLAS allowed multiple 64K virtual address
spaces to be mapped to the larger physical memory. Sort of the
reverse of the usual virtual addressing scheme, where there is more
virtual memory than physical memory.