I did a port just like that (DTS Generic Unix) just to see what it would be like. It was awful. I’ll never do that again.
> On Nov 26, 2015, at 6:14 PM, Steve Simon <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I don't know about the PDP but the VAX allowed access to address zero. > > Even more insidious, it allowed you to dereference a null pointer and > guaranteed it would contain a zero, which resulted in many tiresome > portability issues - I used Interdatas at the time, which faulted on a read > at address zero. > > -Steve > > > On 26 Nov 2015, at 17:48, Bakul Shah <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> Good points! Though 0 was a valid address on pdp11, right? >>>>>>
