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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Kernel Definition
Message-ID: <48JBS77@xds13.ferranti.com>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
References: <1423@necis.UUCP> <29696@hydra.gatech.EDU>
Date: Fri, 24 May 91 14:54:52 GMT

In article <29696@hydra.gatech.EDU> ken@dali.cc.gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) writes:
> Your friend has absolutely no idea what he's talking about.  In
> any traditional Unix system (V6, V7, Sys[35], BSD), the kernel
> is never swapped.

Weren't there some varieties of 2BSD that had an overlayed kernel on the
PDP-11? But that was pretty late in the life of 2BSD, when they were putting
all sorts of 4BSD stuff in it. I think it was 2.11 that started doing this.

(when was the last time you ran into an overlayed program?)
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