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by Taniwha 1731 days ago
I also worked on it at UniSoft, did maybe half the device drivers, plus the appletalk stack, autoconfig (loadable drivers), large screen support, console subsystem, kernel event manager for the mac world etc.

The early 68k systems used in the early macs only brought out 24 address bits, Apple did indeed use that memory for metadata - memory was tight - the first Macs had 128k, we were shipping Unix systems at UniSoft that ran in 256k.

I don't think anyone ever used NuBus memory :-)

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PS: hi Carl :-)
:-) Close - I was the other cocky young kid from Berkeley.

Since there was only one Kiwi on the project, the other clue I'll give you is that I inherited your cubicle when you left.

Ah - my original guess was one of the Chris

(how would I know who got my cubicle when I left? :-)

have a look upthread someone has discovered an early A/UX kernel source release that Apple must have slipped to someone (my guess is Cayman Systems)