Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!tekecs!orca!andrew From: andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: Shared system routines Message-ID: <1437@orca.UUCP> Date: Tue, 2-Aug-83 01:28:25 EDT Article-I.D.: orca.1437 Posted: Tue Aug 2 01:28:25 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 27-Jul-83 12:18:00 EDT References: sri-arpa.3446 Lines: 13 "The idea precedes VMS; DEC's RSTS/E for the PDP-11 has had `Run-Time Systems' for some time. They essentially allow re-entrant code to be accessed by any number of jobs at once." And the idea precedes RSTS. TOPS-10, the PDP-10 operating system upon whose architecture RSTS was based ("hey, let's write TOPS-10 in Basic for a minicomputer!") implemented "Object Time Systems", which occupied the upper half of the logical address space of a program written in Fortran, Algol, or Cobol. -- Andrew Klossner (decvax!teklabs!tekecs!andrew) [UUCP] (andrew.tektronix@rand-relay) [ARPA]