From: "Rob Pike" <robpike@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] a quick and simple minded study of configure.
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 14:23:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7359f0490706151423n56208c6dm69aabf4bc4e0ae2d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13426df10706151415s3f523d95x7256f098bdab9a7@mail.gmail.com>
When porting the Plan 9 kernel to Sun, I struggled a bit with the MMU.
Someone offered to send me the code for Spring (I think) to help me
understand it. The relevant code was far bigger than the entire Plan
9 kernel code I was porting. It didn't help at all.
Dave Cheriton gave a talk, I think at the first OSDI, where he spoke
about a system he'd written. He said it was small, only 100K lines.
I said I considered that large; our kernel at the time was about 25K
lines and was far more complete than his research toy. "Yeah," he
said, "but those are Bell Labs lines." I took that as a compliment,
but he might not have meant it that way.
-rob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-15 21:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-15 21:15 ron minnich
2007-06-15 21:18 ` Francisco J Ballesteros
2007-06-15 21:23 ` Rob Pike [this message]
2007-06-16 1:18 ` David Leimbach
2007-06-16 4:39 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2007-06-16 5:58 ` Bruce Ellis
2007-06-16 15:34 ` David Leimbach
2007-06-17 7:06 ` Martin Neubauer
2007-06-17 23:58 ` Uriel
2007-06-18 2:25 ` David Leimbach
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