[hacknews] new /unix with improved kernel dumper

henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (06/06/85)

Now running a new /unix.  No user-visible changes; the only thing that
has changed is that the kernel core-dumper, used after crashes, now
dumps *all* of memory in 8KB blocks rather than dumping only the first
quarter-meg in 512B blocks.  (Actually, the code now decides which
algorithm to use by determining whether the processor has a Unibus
map, i.e. more than a quarter-meg of memory, on the fly.)  This is
tentative until I get a chance to verify that the dump tape from today's
test really has a valid memory image on it.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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