From: Eric Smith
Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2016 6:38 PM
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 12:47 PM, Rich Alderson <ri...@livingcomputers.org>
> wrote:
>> [1] For non-PDP10 programmers: The original architecture of the PDP-6
>> and PDP-10 used an 18-bit (256KW) address space. The KI-10
>> processor added a 22-bit pager and a concept of sections to the
>> hardware.
> As you say, the KI10 had 22-bit physical memory addressing, almost
> identical to the "KI paging" of the later Model A KL10. There were two
> PTEs per 36-bit word in the page table, with the five of the 18 bits
> being the APWSX properties, and the remaining 13 being a physical page
> number. The 13-bit physical page number was concatenated with the
> offset into the 512-word page (low 9 bits of the virtual address) to
> get the 22-bit physical address.
> However, the KI10 did not have any "sections". Sections were introduced
> with the Extended ("Model B", "KL paging") KL10.
I knew that was wrong just as soon as I had hit "Send", but I also knew
that I could count on one of the PDP-10 subgroup to fix that.
Thanks!
Rich
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer
Living Computer Museum
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