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Indeed, Multics segments were mapped into your address space on demand, and the standard way to access them was as memory. As a '60s architecture, they had a m
by hga 11y ago
Indeed, Multics segments were mapped into your address space on demand, and the standard way to access them was as memory. As a '60s architecture, they had a maximum size of 1 MiB (of 9 bit bytes), and by the time I showed up on the scene there was a "multi-segment file" abstraction for those with data that fit into that model that was bigger than 1 MiB.
- nickpsecurity 11y agoMakes sense. Yeah, people doing the comparison should keep the timeline in mind: MULTICS 1960's concepts; UNICS (err, UNIX) 1970's concepts including takeaways from MULTICS. Back then, OS & architecture innovation was moving fast with significant changes in how things were done in that short span. Not to mention UNIX targeted a minicomputer.