From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 735 invoked from network); 19 Jun 2022 09:14:41 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 19 Jun 2022 09:14:41 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5CE940D58; Sun, 19 Jun 2022 19:14:37 +1000 (AEST) Received: from freefriends.org (freefriends.org [96.88.95.60]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6298F40D46 for ; Sun, 19 Jun 2022 19:14:33 +1000 (AEST) X-Envelope-From: arnold@skeeve.com Received: from freefriends.org (freefriends.org [96.88.95.60]) by freefriends.org (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id 25J9ERM6022850 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Sun, 19 Jun 2022 03:14:28 -0600 Received: (from arnold@localhost) by freefriends.org (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id 25J9EQ3L022848; Sun, 19 Jun 2022 03:14:26 -0600 From: arnold@skeeve.com Message-Id: <202206190914.25J9EQ3L022848@freefriends.org> X-Authentication-Warning: frenzy.freefriends.org: arnold set sender to arnold@skeeve.com using -f Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2022 03:14:26 -0600 To: tuhs@tuhs.org, aap@papnet.eu References: In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.5 7/5/10 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID-Hash: B4UPRTFBJNWHNN2GQPHCVSQYQYS3NMHP X-Message-ID-Hash: B4UPRTFBJNWHNN2GQPHCVSQYQYS3NMHP X-MailFrom: arnold@skeeve.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: forgotten versions List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: See https://plan9foundation.org/ and https://p9f.org/dl/ in particular to download the sources. Arnold Angelo Papenhoff 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 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 > > >