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From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: DG UNIX History
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2022 17:56:24 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221113015624.GM9823@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2PM8OVgoHLf96K-u4w2Dh02ELp-6vnczTtJKGnWowEhrg@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Nov 12, 2022 at 02:36:05PM -0500, Clem Cole wrote:
> To be honest, I've forgotten many (most) of the details.  But that sounds
> about right.  As I remember it, it was like SunOS.  The key point was that
> the kernel only had one view of the memory system period, no FS
> buffer cache etc...which was a departure from many of the traditional UNIX
> implementations.    IIRC they did not support BSD's mmap -- but check the

It sounds like they could have supported mmap() easily.  I'd love to see
this kernel, it sounds to me like it was SunOS with nicely done SMP 
support.  The guy that said he'd never seen anything like it before or
since, just makes me want to see it more.

I know someone who was friends with one of the kernel guys, haven't talked
to her in years but I'll see if I can find anything.

  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-13  1:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-12 15:54 [TUHS] " Clem Cole
2022-11-12 16:09 ` [TUHS] " Larry McVoy
2022-11-12 16:52 ` arnold
2022-11-12 17:05   ` Larry McVoy
2022-11-12 17:09   ` Miod Vallat
2022-11-12 17:12     ` Warner Losh
2022-11-12 17:39     ` arnold
2022-11-12 17:13   ` David Barto
2022-11-12 17:37   ` Brad Spencer
2022-11-12 18:04   ` Clem Cole
2022-11-12 18:36     ` Larry McVoy
2022-11-12 19:36       ` Clem Cole
2022-11-13  1:56         ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2022-11-12 19:16 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-11-12 19:31   ` Clem Cole
2022-11-14 11:44 arnold
2022-11-14 22:11 Paul Ruizendaal
2022-11-14 22:31 ` Clem Cole
2022-11-14 23:54   ` Warner Losh
2022-11-15  6:03     ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-11-15 15:11       ` Larry McVoy
2022-11-15 15:48         ` Bakul Shah
2022-11-15 17:47       ` Warner Losh
2022-11-15  1:21   ` Stuff Received

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