Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!wivax!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!cepu!scw@ucla-locus From: scw%ucla-locus@cepu.UUCP Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: re: Overlays (on what ever) Message-ID: <2098@sri-arpa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 13-Jun-83 11:13:00 EDT Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.2098 Posted: Mon Jun 13 11:13:00 1983 Date-Received: Thu, 16-Jun-83 06:13:53 EDT Lines: 11 From: Steve WoodsRE: Article-I.D.: qubix.306 The Berkey 2.(8/9)BSD UNIX for the PDP-11 has some user overlay hacks, Unfortunatly I don't think they would be all that helpful as the are designed to get around the pdp-11 32kwd addressing limitation (the entire text is loaded and then remapped as required), but at least it would be somewhere to start. The Math department here (UCLA) has rehashed the ucb overlays to provide more different overlays (16 vs 8) a in general to clean it up. The original overlay code is from Menlo-park (a 11/70 I believe).