From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: tuhs@tuhs.org, john@jfloren.net
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Chaosnet in v8
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 10:46:59 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <202404101646.43AGkxuc018573@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877ch547fu.fsf@frodo.floren.lan>
John Floren via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org> wrote:
> I've been doing some research on Lisp machines and came across an
> interesting tidbit: there was Chaosnet support in Unix v8, e.g.
> https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V8/usr/sys/chunix/chaos.c
>
> Does anyone remember why that went in? My first guess would be for
> interoperability with the Symbolics users at Bell Labs (see Bromley's
> "Lisp Lore", 1986), but that's just speculation.
>
> john
Didn't BSD have Chaosnet support? It wouldn't suprise me to learn that
it was just left over from when Research imported 4.1 BSD.
Arnold
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-04-10 16:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-04-10 14:26 [TUHS] " John Floren via TUHS
2024-04-10 14:35 ` [TUHS] " Lars Brinkhoff
2024-04-10 16:46 ` arnold [this message]
2024-04-10 18:23 ` segaloco via TUHS
2024-04-10 15:11 Douglas McIlroy
2024-04-10 21:12 ` Rob Pike
2024-04-10 21:17 ` Dave Horsfall
2024-04-15 16:22 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2024-04-15 17:25 ` Sergio Pedraja
2024-04-16 19:07 ` Marcus Clark
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