From: forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] SO for plan9?
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 20:35:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200006281938.PAA19779@cse.psu.edu> (raw)
>>picked the Three Rivers Computer
>>Corporation's PERQ (ICL sold these
>>in Britain.) These gadgets were
the original microcode provided elaborate yet frustrating instructions,
and didn't work all that well.
ICL replaced the Three Rivers microcode to produce a much
faster, more reasonable target, for C and other languages
(I did a Pascal compiler for that version), and ported Unix
to it. it used a variant of layers for the graphics.
it was not too bad (the user interface had one odd feature),
but Suns had begun to appear by that time and the project was dropped.
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2000-06-28 19:35 forsyth [this message]
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2000-07-07 2:15 rob pike
2000-06-28 10:40 john
2000-06-26 14:09 rob pike
2000-06-26 14:31 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2000-06-28 8:28 ` Chris Locke
2000-06-28 14:50 ` Srinivasa, Balaji
2000-06-25 11:56 forsyth
2000-06-26 9:03 ` Michael Dingler
2000-06-26 10:23 ` Nigel Roles
2000-06-26 14:22 ` Steve Kotsopoulos
2000-06-26 14:44 ` Nigel Roles
2000-06-27 8:31 ` Michael Dingler
2000-06-28 8:27 ` Steve Simon
2000-06-28 9:40 ` Nigel Roles
[not found] ` <ngr@9fs.org>
2000-06-28 16:50 ` Tom Duff
2000-06-29 12:59 ` Douglas Fraser
2000-06-29 8:31 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-06-26 13:53 ` James A. Robinson
2000-06-22 13:08 Anthony Sorace
2000-06-21 15:16 dhog
2000-06-21 17:56 ` Randolph Fritz
2000-06-22 8:40 ` Oleg Krivosheev
2000-06-20 10:13 rob pike
2000-06-20 8:47 Oleg Krivosheev
[not found] ` <kriol@wally.fnal.gov>
2000-06-20 16:12 ` Tom Duff
2000-06-21 8:41 ` Oleg Krivosheev
2000-06-21 9:03 ` Alexander Viro
2000-06-22 8:45 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-06-22 12:49 ` Howard Trickey
2000-06-22 13:19 ` Greg Hudson
2000-06-22 21:47 ` Steve Kilbane
2000-06-26 9:00 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-06-23 8:57 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-06-23 13:05 ` Kasper Peeters
[not found] ` <K.Peeters@damtp.cam.ac.uk>
2000-06-23 16:01 ` Tom Duff
2000-06-24 10:10 ` Steve Kilbane
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