[cctalk] Re: mainframe vs mini

[Paul Koning via cctalk]

> On Mar 17, 2023, at 11:22 AM, Chuck Guzis <ccl...@sydex.com> wrote:
> 
> Anent the Smotherman paper.  Woefully incomplete and inaccurate, but
> perhaps a starting point.
> 
> https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/interrupts.html

I noticed the section on deferred interrupts, which mentions Cutler and "fork" 
on RSX.  It doesn't mention the similar mechanism, also called fork, in RT-11.  
I don't know if RT-11 was earlier or concurrent, nor whether the two came up 
with it independently.  

        paul