From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: 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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [IPv6:2600:3c01:e000:146::1]) by inbox.vuxu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BBE1620FFC for ; Wed, 10 Apr 2024 18:47:16 +0200 (CEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08D40416B5; Thu, 11 Apr 2024 02:47:11 +1000 (AEST) Received: from freefriends.org (frenzy.freefriends.org [198.99.81.75]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AB777416AD for ; Thu, 11 Apr 2024 02:47:06 +1000 (AEST) X-Envelope-From: arnold@skeeve.com Received: from freefriends.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefriends.org (8.14.7/8.14.7) with ESMTP id 43AGkxFt018574 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 10 Apr 2024 10:46:59 -0600 Received: (from arnold@localhost) by freefriends.org (8.14.7/8.14.7/Submit) id 43AGkxuc018573; Wed, 10 Apr 2024 10:46:59 -0600 From: arnold@skeeve.com Message-Id: <202404101646.43AGkxuc018573@freefriends.org> X-Authentication-Warning: frenzy.freefriends.org: arnold set sender to arnold@skeeve.com using -f Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 10:46:59 -0600 To: tuhs@tuhs.org, john@jfloren.net References: <877ch547fu.fsf@frodo.floren.lan> In-Reply-To: <877ch547fu.fsf@frodo.floren.lan> 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: GLJO4HJU7VZKOLLTRP2AIZQNEDX6SGBI X-Message-ID-Hash: GLJO4HJU7VZKOLLTRP2AIZQNEDX6SGBI X-MailFrom: arnold@skeeve.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; 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: Chaosnet in v8 List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: John Floren via TUHS 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