[NTLUG:Discuss] Killing Off Linux: It's All Academic

[David Stokes]

--- Eric Schnoebelen <eric at cirr.com> wrote:
> 
> Steve Baker writes:
> - I'm a little suprised when you say that V6 didn't have virtual
> memory.
> - That old PDP-11 only had 64K words of memory - 128Kbytes.  We often
> - had several people logged into it at once - it's hard to believe
> that
> - without virtual memory.
> 
> 	It does (did?) have virtual memory, although not as we
> think of it now..  What V6 did was swap out entire programs when
> it needed to bring in another program and space wasn't
> available.  Additionally, processes were limited real memory
> (likely 32K words on your little PDP-11 above)

You then got to turn on the 'sticky bit' on your code to try and keep
your file in swap so it wouldn't have to be read off disk every time
you ran it.  Ahhh, the days when vi was exciting new technology  :-)

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-David Stokes-
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