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Episode 99 - The Berkeley Software Distribution

Advent of Computing

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Getting Virtual Memory to Unix

The first Vax would hit campus in 1978, and it took a team of programmers to get this new memory manager in shape. Joy didn't want to regress to the codebase so he and his co-conspirators ported software from 2bsd over to the Vax. One stumbling block was actually the Pascal interpreter, which was apparently written in PDP 11 assembly language.

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