From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (minnie.tuhs.org [45.79.103.53]) by inbox.vuxu.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 7aad68ff for ; Wed, 17 Jul 2019 23:23:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id BCC7B9B9D8; Thu, 18 Jul 2019 09:23:15 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C903494BCD; Thu, 18 Jul 2019 09:23:00 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 080D494BCD; Thu, 18 Jul 2019 09:22:59 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail.bitblocks.com (ns1.bitblocks.com [173.228.5.8]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DB799491B for ; Thu, 18 Jul 2019 09:22:58 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mob.bitblocks.com (mob.bitblocks.com [192.168.125.11]) by mail.bitblocks.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0407D156E424; Wed, 17 Jul 2019 16:22:36 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 12.4 \(3445.104.11\)) From: Bakul Shah In-Reply-To: Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 16:22:36 -0700 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <36C1A87C-FA3D-475A-8F6D-894CAE3F2EF7@bitblocks.com> References: <8235a090-c48a-4587-8974-23305233bc33@PU1APC01FT026.eop-APC01.prod.protection.outlook.com> <3CFC8159-08DD-4647-8CEF-FE8D196AB3C9@ccc.com> <610F6FCB-F24D-4788-953A-83E0E6456622@ccc.com> <017d16e0-3a7d-b3e7-29b8-8a454d78463f@e-bbes.com> <201907170810.x6H8AELx031974@freefriends.org> <46FC947C-F150-4835-A858-3EE05A394A6A@alchemistowl.org> To: Clem Cole X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3445.104.11) Subject: Re: [TUHS] Old 386 Unix Versions, was: Re: PCC for the i386 X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" On Jul 17, 2019, at 7:34 AM, Clem Cole wrote: > On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 5:28 AM Arrigo Triulzi = wrote:=20 > > For example there was Bull=E2=80=99s Chorus which I seem to recall = was based on Mach or a competing microkernel (it was a very long time = ago and I used it for no mare than about two hours..). > Close, not quite. Contemporaries but not the same. >=20 > Chorus was a C++ rewrite of Gien's Pascal based 'SOL' systems [Gien M. = (1983). =E2=80=9CThe SOL Operating System=E2=80=9D, USENIX Association, = 1983, Proceedings of the Summer =E2=80=9883 USENIX Conference, Toronto, = Canada, July, 1983, Pages 75-78.] A good paper on Chorus: = https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/eab3/b28bebdc202d9c5e2354731bebadf0872aac= .pdf Apparently Chorus was not "unix" until the SOL team joined them in 1984! Its nucleus seem very much like a microkernel.