* [9fans] original cpu server @ 2009-11-02 13:56 erik quanstrom 2009-11-02 14:53 ` Rob Pike 2009-11-02 16:25 ` Benjamin Huntsman 0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: erik quanstrom @ 2009-11-02 13:56 UTC (permalink / raw) To: 9fans while on the subject of ancient things, does anyone know what hardware the first (or even proto-) cpu server ran on? i hope i haven't missed the answer in the archive. - erik ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] original cpu server 2009-11-02 13:56 [9fans] original cpu server erik quanstrom @ 2009-11-02 14:53 ` Rob Pike 2009-11-02 16:25 ` Benjamin Huntsman 1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Rob Pike @ 2009-11-02 14:53 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs the first attempt was on a multi-headed vax whose model number escapes me. it was pretty foul architecturally. in early 1989 a restart was done for the 25-MHz mips CPU inside a 4-headed SGI shared-memory multiprocessor. the CPU had no synchronizing instructions but the SGI machine had a special piece of shared memory with locking properties. the kernel muxed locks onto sections of that memory. that system became real. a second machine became the file server. -rob ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* Re: [9fans] original cpu server 2009-11-02 13:56 [9fans] original cpu server erik quanstrom 2009-11-02 14:53 ` Rob Pike @ 2009-11-02 16:25 ` Benjamin Huntsman 1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Benjamin Huntsman @ 2009-11-02 16:25 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 228 bytes --] >does anyone know what hardware the >first (or even proto-) cpu server ran on? I thought the original CPU server was the SGI Power 4D, with the i960-based optical connection. ...unless there was something older? -Ben [-- Attachment #2: winmail.dat --] [-- Type: application/ms-tnef, Size: 2352 bytes --] ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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