[Info-vax] [OT] PDP-11 address space, was: Re: HP adds OpenVMS Mature Product Support beyond the end of Standard Support

[Simon Clubley]

On 2014-02-02, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> On 2014-02-01 07:41, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>>
>> Of course, being as they are still being made, it would be real
>> interesting to see a new PDP-11 with more address lines, too. :-)
>> There I go dreaming again.  :-)  But, you have to admiit, it could
>> be a lot of fun.
>>
>> Hmmm..   Let's see...  How many overlays would it take to get Open
>> Office running on a PDP-11?   :-)
>
> Eh.. What? Any "modern" PDP-11 already have 22 address lines...
> My PDP-11 at home have 4 megs of ram.
> Have you never seen a PDP-11 with that? Under which rock have you been 
> the last 40 years, Bill? :-)
>

In fairness to Bill, I think he's talking about program space address
lines, instead of machine space address lines (ie: he wants to be able
to run larger programs without getting stuck into reading the overlay
section of the TKB manual yet again :-)).

Simon.

PS: I absolutely do _not_ miss TKB. :-)

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