PDP11 I/O page memory map

[Paul Koning]

> On Mar 1, 2018, at 6:12 AM, allison via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
> ... and the MMU also
> understands that peripherals live in that physical space be it 16/18/22
> bit memory map.

That's true when the MMU is disabled; if so it supplies 1 bits for the upper bits for page 7, and zeroes for the other pages.  But if the MMU is enabled, all mapping goes through its mapping registers, and page 7 is no longer special.  By software convention, kernel data page 7 is configured to point to the I/O page, but that isn't required.  If you wanted to be be perverse you could map the I/O page via page 6 and confuse a whole generation of programmers.

	paul