14 Nov
2003
14 Nov
'03
12:05 a.m.
I wrote:
Indeed... Minix was a pretty good example of how we
used and
abused that to no end, in a somewhat PDP-11 style in the sense
that we didnt (by default ;-) provide the process with a method
to claim more of those segments, so the process space was the
usual 16-bit deal.
Add: since the machines had 20-bit addressing, we segments were
actually 4 bits wide, so you could do 16x64K max.
--f