building a PDP11 from the things you find at home

From: John Foust <jfoust_at_threedee.com>
Date: Sat Jul 28 14:33:16 2001

At 12:39 AM 7/27/01 -0400, Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote:
>Well, AmigaDOS has processes, threads, semaphores, message ports,
>messages, preemptive multitasking, multiple file systems and long file names
>(on such filesystems that support that). It's not multi-user so it lacks
>file permissions but it's a single user OS anyway. What else do you need?

Well, we once wanted memory protection, but seeing that all
the above was based heavily on the fact that any process could poke
into any other memory, it was tough. :-)

- John
Received on Sat Jul 28 2001 - 14:33:16 BST