Working my way through Linkers & Loaders, I’m reminded that the architecture PDP-11 has much the same place in the software pantheon that Freud has in psychology - it’s a good story, and because its so easy to retell it’s become a part of the Lingua Franca metaphor set of the common parlance, but despite those tropes’ durability they have very little to do with the real state of the art in modern research and practice, and the field abandoned those ideas a very long ago.