Mark...
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Yes, Lynn was one of the greats among many... we collaborated on the scheduler changes that ended up in SEPP based on some the observations my shop was seeing trying to run a large interactive guest terminal application in a virtual machine. The requirement to immediately dispatch a relatively localized working set into play based on an interrupt from an UNSP 2703 line was a challenge.
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One of my original attempts as improving things was the MINRES mod that was originally intended to make sure that the latest working set for a VM was resident at all times. It was later used as a way to restrict a VM to a certain number of resident pages... not my original goal... John Alford made this alternative popular.
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We were also working with Dave Newsome and Peter (?? can't remember his last name from Cambridge Sci Ctr) on these efforts.
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So, finally, I am in the near-testing stage of my version of Alternate Nucleus which is based on:
* Separating the concept of the IPL(nucleus) volume from the SYSRES(other stuff) volume
* Not requiring nucleui to be located on the same device types or at the same cylinder location
* Being able to load the exactly same load deck to alternate locations without reassemble or rebuild
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I am not looking to replace HRC075DK which does not actually have any impact on nucleus processing. This can still be used to place WRM/ERR/CKP on any other volume
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cheers,
William Denton
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ps.. how do you happen to have access to Lynn's email & notes.. just curious
