From: David Arnold <davida@pobox.com>
To: Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: UNIX on (not quite bare) System/370
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2022 10:18:12 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <C33F4513-A89E-45E9-94CA-EC2BB3ED2C43@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4942C729-FCE2-4075-9B1B-08CB7FC33813@gmail.com>
> On 20 Dec 2022, at 13:12, Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I mean all I really want for Christmas is a 64-bit v7 with TCP/IP support, a screen editor, and SMP support.
>
> The third one is a solved problem. The second one would not be that hard to adapt, say, uIP 0.9, to v7. That first one would require some work with C type sizes, but getting larger is easier than the reverse. It's that last one.
>
> Having said that...maybe what I really want is 64-bit 4.3 BSD?
>
> I mean, just a Unix, without all the cruft of a modern Linux, but which can actually take advantage of the resources of a modern machine. I don't care about a desktop, or even a graphical environment, I don't care about all the strange syscalls that are there to support particular databases, I don't care much about being a virtualization host.
I think xv6 does SMP? (param.h says NCPU = 8, at least).
You’d need to add a network stack and a userland, but there are options for those …
d
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-20 23:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-19 17:38 [TUHS] " Phil Budne
2022-12-19 18:53 ` [TUHS] " segaloco via TUHS
2022-12-19 21:01 ` Clem Cole
2022-12-19 21:19 ` Rob Pike
2022-12-19 22:15 ` segaloco via TUHS
2022-12-20 0:02 ` Brad Spencer
2022-12-20 1:04 ` Adam Thornton
2022-12-20 2:35 ` segaloco via TUHS
2022-12-20 14:25 ` Andrew Hume
2022-12-19 23:02 ` Clem Cole
2022-12-20 1:20 ` Larry Stewart
2022-12-20 1:33 ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-20 1:57 ` George Michaelson
2022-12-20 2:06 ` Dan Cross
2022-12-20 15:04 ` Chet Ramey
2022-12-20 2:12 ` Adam Thornton
2022-12-20 15:29 ` Andy Kosela
2022-12-20 15:35 ` Adam Thornton
2022-12-21 2:43 ` Luther Johnson
2022-12-20 23:18 ` David Arnold [this message]
2022-12-20 2:52 ` Bakul Shah
2022-12-20 3:09 ` Larry McVoy
2022-12-20 3:27 ` Bakul Shah
2022-12-20 3:48 ` Warner Losh
2022-12-20 4:21 ` Jonathan Gray
2022-12-19 21:36 ` Marc Donner
2022-12-19 22:52 ` Charles H Sauer (he/him)
[not found] ` <01428a75-3507-7b8a-fd35-cef74c8c0bd2@ucsb.edu>
2022-12-20 1:49 ` [TUHS] Re: pre-1991 USENIX proceedings Marc Donner
2022-12-20 3:11 ` [TUHS] Re: UNIX on (not quite bare) System/370 Warner Losh
2022-12-20 8:56 ` arnold
2022-12-20 9:31 ` segaloco via TUHS
2022-12-20 9:39 ` arnold
2022-12-20 9:55 ` Jonathan Gray
2022-12-20 14:27 ` Clem Cole
2022-12-23 1:53 ` Rob Gingell
2022-12-22 19:00 ` Andrew Hume
2022-12-20 22:25 Noel Chiappa
2022-12-20 23:18 ` Bakul Shah
2022-12-22 17:26 Noel Chiappa
2022-12-22 17:33 ` Dan Cross
2022-12-22 20:25 ` Warner Losh
2022-12-22 23:06 ` Warner Losh
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