4 Aug
2023
4 Aug
'23
5:08 a.m.
On Thu, 3 Aug 2023, Clem Cole wrote:
For whatever its worth, even with 4M the kernel had
started to become a
problem for V7 on an 11/70. Data buffers eat a lot of memory.
We at UNSW had a kludge for that; the global symbol "b" (similar to
"u")
was mapped by KISA5 into the current buffer header. Having dozens of
buffers on a 40-class machine was really something...
-- Dave