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From: jhallen@wpi.wpi.edu (Joseph H Allen)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: loading (was Re: IBM PC prehistory)
Message-ID: <6792@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 16 Jan 90 09:39:34 GMT
References: <7413@drilex.UUCP> <380@bambam.UUCP>
Reply-To: jhallen@wpi.wpi.edu (Joseph H Allen)
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester ,MA
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In article <380@bambam.UUCP> bpendlet@bambam.UUCP (Bob Pendleton) writes:
>From article <7413@drilex.UUCP>, by dricejb@drilex.UUCP (Craig Jackson drilex1):

>> But relocatibility
>> would be essential for almost any Unix-like operating system, and I would

>My conclusion is that you've never heard of a relocating loader. I

This reminds me, has anyone even made a linker and/or loader system that can
load into multiple fragments of a non-MMU'd memory?  I'm not sure if this can
be done with variable size fragments but it should work if a block size is
defined.  Also, it can probably only work with the code, not the data.  It
would be like a PDP-8...