12 Nov
2021
12 Nov
'21
9:49 p.m.
I'm not sure I follow you.? The only DEC supplied system program I can
think of in Tops-20 that bulk inputs a pre-compiled binary is SETHOS,
which it does to (significantly) speed boot up.? The only other examples
I can think of were /non/-DEC developed software: the EXEC, the mailer
and (Columbia) LPTSPL.
None of the Tops-10 CUSP's that I've updated do this.
I'm forgetting something obvious, right?
On 11/12/21 10:57 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
On 2021-11-12 15:24, Paul Koning wrote:
Same with -11M. But it's only used for the kernel.
However, in TOPS-20 as well as some other DEC OSes, this is a common
pattern for all programs.
? Johnny
On Nov 11, 2021, at 6:22 PM, Johnny Billquist
<bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
I must admit that I hadn't considered the possibility of just saving
the core. Which of course can accomplish the same thing in a neat way.
That's a bit like how RSX-11/D and IAS boot -- by reloading the image
of memory when you issued the SAV command.? Pretty clever: you set
things up the way you want them to be, and then you make that state
persistent.