From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sri-unix!ron@Brl-Bmd.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: /dev/pmem, now come on!
Article-I.D.: sri-arpa.900
Posted: Wed Mar 30 11:36:18 1983
Received: Tue Apr 19 00:42:49 1983

From:      Ron Natalie <ron@Brl-Bmd.ARPA>

With the new /dev/pmem, you could use that as the core image
for adb, and make adb the standard login shell.  The help
message could read:
	You are typing at "ADB", the top level command
	interpreter/debugger of the "UNIX" time sharaing
	system.  Unix commands start with a "!"...

It's a lot easy to pick out the top 50 kernel constants with
either a table driver or with a system call like pwbsys system
call than random seeking in kmem, and this assumes you have the
namelist of the kernel you are running (not always /unix, you
know).

-Ron