Re: [9fans] Plan9 multi-core support

[Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>]

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A big reason for doing Plan 9, as the linked article says right up top, was
supporting multi{core|processor} machines. And that took some research
because there really hadn't been that many around to write OSes for before
then. Some novel work resulted, work that still has relevance.

-rob


On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 8:41 AM <ori@eigenstate.org> wrote:

> Quoth dusan3sic@gmail.com:
> > Does plan9 have multi-core support? If it does, how does it manage it
> (what files/man pages/docs do I read). If it doesn't have, how would I
> implement it.
>
> read: https://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/9
> and once again, read: https://www.mikeash.com/getting_answers.html
>
> (hint: multiprocessor means the same thing as multicore)
>
> > If it doesn't have, how would I implement it.
> 
> it already has it, but if it didn't -- were incapable of finding out
> if we have multicore support, what makes you would be able to implement it?
> 

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