On Tue, 3 May 2016, Paul Koning wrote:
No, the PDP-11 offered this starting with the 11/45, in 1971.
OK, that is a hint - the 11/45 also had a MMU and obviosly must
have been a great machine for multi-user stuff.
In larger computers the feature is much older. Consider the CDC 6600
(1964). While not all the properties you mentioned apply because I/O is
in separate peripheral processors, the notion of a privileged mode and
address mapping is there. And even that isn't the oldest example, I
I have been aware, that bigger machines offered this already
and therefore I explicitly asked for "Minis"... But yes, the CDCs
are very impressive machines!!!
Thanks for your reply,
Erik.
