1 Jan
2019
1 Jan
'19
12:38 a.m.
From: Paul Winalski
What is magic number 0411? That one I've never
heard of before.
It's a PDP-11-ism. Separate I+D.
Noel
1 Jan
1 Jan
2:06 a.m.
New subject: Upgrading from 11/40 to 11/45 in Unix v6
On Mon, Dec 31, 2018, 1:38 PM Noel Chiappa <jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu wrote:
Venix/86, a v7 sys iii hybrid that ran on 8086/286 also uses it for
basically the same thing... its compiler was limited to one 64k code
segment and one 64k data / stack segment. The syscall interface depends on
this quirk as well...
Warner
From: Paul
Winalski
What is magic number 0411? That one I've
never heard of before.
It's a PDP-11-ism. Separate I+D.
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