[net.unix-wizards] UNIX V 11/70 vs VAX differences

brownell@harvard.ARPA (Dave Brownell) (06/22/84)

Apologies if this has been posted before.

System V on Vexen and PDP11s also have different implementations of
shared memory.  The Vax version has real segments that you can put
anywhere, with IPC protection mechanisms; the PDP11 version is has a
different interface, substituting filesystem protections for the IPC
ones.  Also, segment sizes on the PDP11 are fixed at 4k, while
they're variable in full System V implementations.


Dave Brownell
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