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From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: tuhs@tuhs.org, aap@papnet.eu
Subject: [TUHS] Re: forgotten versions
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2022 03:14:26 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <202206190914.25J9EQ3L022848@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Yq7mHyD2pFk3l4n5@indra.papnet.eu>

See https://plan9foundation.org/ and https://p9f.org/dl/ in particular
to download the sources.

Arnold

Angelo Papenhoff <aap@papnet.eu> wrote:

> It brings up one other question for me though:
> rsc made a repo of the plan 9 kernel source code (https://9p.io/sources/extra/9hist/)
> (which can now be found in git format too: https://github.com/0intro/9hist)
> But what about the non-kernel parts of the system?
> Is there a chance of getting the user space stuff as well? Does it even
> still exist?
>
> aap
>
> On 19/06/22, Rob Pike wrote:
> > Aha, yes, my mistake, sorry about that. I bet I misread that mail because
> > of the mention of a Sun port, which put me in a nostalgic (read: resentful)
> > mood.
> > 
> > Anyway, knowing about the Plan 9 VAX kernel might be interesting, but the
> > kernel itself was not.
> > 
> > -rob
> > 
> > 
> > On Sun, Jun 19, 2022 at 6:17 PM Angelo Papenhoff <aap@papnet.eu> wrote:
> > 
> > > I wasn't talking about Plan 9, but it's interesting to know that there
> > > was an attempt at a VAX kernel.
> > >
> > > On 19/06/22, Rob Pike wrote:
> > > > The VAX Plan 9 kernel isn't worth anything. It never worked, was never
> > > > used, and was abandoned completely when better SMP machines started
> > > > appearing. The VAX code wasn't even ported, as I remember it; Ken and I
> > > > started over from scratch with a pair of 4-core SGI machines with MIPS
> > > CPUs
> > > > and wackadoo synchronization hardware.
> > > >
> > > > -rob
> > >

  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-19  9:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-16 23:06 [TUHS] " Rob Pike
2022-06-16 23:17 ` [TUHS] " Earl Baugh
2022-06-16 23:18 ` George Michaelson
2022-06-16 23:44   ` George Michaelson
2022-06-17  0:10     ` Larry McVoy
2022-06-17 16:23     ` [TUHS] Sockets vs Streams (was " Bakul Shah
2022-06-17 17:43       ` [TUHS] " Paul Winalski
2022-06-17 22:52       ` Dan Stromberg
2022-06-17  7:20 ` [TUHS] " Diomidis Spinellis
2022-06-17  7:33   ` Rob Pike
2022-06-17  8:34   ` arnold
2022-06-17 10:52 ` arnold
2022-06-18  7:05 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2022-06-19  7:50   ` Rob Pike
2022-06-19  8:17     ` Angelo Papenhoff
2022-06-19  8:53       ` Rob Pike
2022-06-19  9:02         ` Angelo Papenhoff
2022-06-19  9:14           ` arnold [this message]
2022-06-19  9:19             ` Angelo Papenhoff
2022-06-19  9:23               ` arnold
2022-06-19 11:37                 ` Matthias Bruestle
2022-06-19 14:47         ` Kenneth Goodwin
2022-06-19 16:27           ` Al Kossow
2022-06-19 18:32           ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-06-19 18:38             ` Dan Cross
2022-06-21 23:56               ` Jacob Moody
2022-06-22  0:13                 ` Larry McVoy
2022-06-22  0:48                   ` Rob Pike
2022-06-22  1:55                     ` George Michaelson
2022-06-22  2:10                       ` Bakul Shah
2022-06-22  2:14                       ` Jon Steinhart
2022-06-22  2:19                         ` Andrew Hume
2022-06-22  2:58                           ` Rob Pike
2022-06-22  3:09                             ` George Michaelson
2022-06-22  2:16                   ` Andrew Hume
2022-06-22  2:55                   ` Brad Spencer
2022-06-17 14:50 Paul Ruizendaal
2022-06-18  0:35 Douglas McIlroy
2022-06-18  5:00 ` Kevin Bowling
2022-06-18  5:13   ` Adam Thornton
2022-06-18 16:58     ` Clem Cole
2022-06-18 17:18       ` Warner Losh
2022-06-18 17:57         ` Clem Cole
2022-06-18 19:55 Paul Ruizendaal
2022-06-22 12:06 Noel Chiappa
2022-06-23  0:02 ` Dan Cross
2022-06-23  2:18 Noel Chiappa
2022-06-24  6:47 Paul Ruizendaal
2022-06-25 19:16 ` Anthony Martin
2022-06-25 20:45   ` Paul Ruizendaal
2022-06-27  0:57     ` Kevin Bowling

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