2 Mar
2018
2 Mar
'18
10:25 a.m.
It might be interesting to make a virtual PDP-11 (simulator) that *IS*
more virtualization friendly, and find out how much user code depends
on the existing behavior... And then write a PDP-11 hypervisor!
BUT existing PDP-11's aren't even friendly restarting after a page
fault, which is required for lesser virtualization (VM), and would be
necessary to simulate memory mapped devices.
I remember how each new generation of MC68K processors had ever larger
trap stack frames to hold internal processor state...