From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 18868 invoked from network); 5 Jan 2024 19:16:59 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (2600:3c01:e000:146::1) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 5 Jan 2024 19:16:59 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE22D43EED; Sat, 6 Jan 2024 05:16:52 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail-ej1-x62e.google.com (mail-ej1-x62e.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::62e]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CE2CB43EEC for ; Sat, 6 Jan 2024 05:16:43 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mail-ej1-x62e.google.com with SMTP id a640c23a62f3a-a277339dcf4so203512666b.2 for ; Fri, 05 Jan 2024 11:16:43 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=corvus-net.20230601.gappssmtp.com; s=20230601; t=1704482201; x=1705087001; darn=tuhs.org; h=content-transfer-encoding:to:subject:message-id:date:from :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:from:to:cc:subject:date :message-id:reply-to; bh=MzF6548hTyhKEFVQitFl823PYPsODLS2CYtKMVNdm0k=; b=YBLC1j2J5ad4VGzhqZ6K2vrWCr169oYd3BYXPn7/ax4fRFgt7EQDTTbZb0jbBO/fQr VC2Iz+wxBzAxuoLnU5YV7wjYLjNYFql+vpYQKDdjR/ufngvZvapaVNNLs0vsOa2iG4CW iImSVvrREBqgO6UYbMz81QS7MCatXKxY+W9UFmgwvAtVWtaojTyhTleR3QygAvCDus5g 1CgulgEtShVQhPKViUmXN3VzNym9okn4ohkY9BikMGYTmgs8MJgDr6dq14vlTYILJrX0 zMRIN7uyKWtUr8JbyCSMqMfz/DHuDElsewfXQIUQlehBtXec9bIBP4GiaHNFpleqcxvi iBxg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20230601; t=1704482201; x=1705087001; h=content-transfer-encoding:to:subject:message-id:date:from :in-reply-to:references:mime-version:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc :subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=MzF6548hTyhKEFVQitFl823PYPsODLS2CYtKMVNdm0k=; b=VOCc04MI2o45M7XF7gyP/g/mh/NjcuYfmNSn+9EplyQEFSbZ7xFIDLfMJbT4ebptAf PIJUmZlZ/KUiMyx0ldzDYhxa3rOcGIQitdwtL0hxWTDD3i06W62VAdU46AZmpCAFYgtG 2dY+CaLXDTrDRyR0Sy49IGOJKiAykyXRgV/TURc0BI1X/Y+NYATJtrU6AbHfUJjn6Fs+ 7Mi2vBubgrRArYeRE5DoBCCS1PJ8CUaE2vaFCpbXb10dtN97lRUMdskZRTF5Ih3n5Ybs QvBYThnrmAdxkfUwFQnjYIGaDbaOB158XslGOtkemOzzD7qxToWGRe7oEzezGggZ7qjV r+xA== X-Gm-Message-State: AOJu0YwUCv2+qaZwjOGx/Dh2/zrpyb4qNbIZLTFPgQBGJfbRBtTHdJfl IL2dfdH48hZyI6uChmDQD8zXId7cnunRiGbr0qrtYiQLMRqXl1f9X3MEph7JsQ== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AGHT+IEdFFg09PsRFX7NsPwuiomSw8b/VhrGibcKPcR2bYMF7hp4gzrkZmMw+t8N0cuoWoqX6LvTB43LO3OByNLFdQE= X-Received: by 2002:a17:906:c291:b0:a28:68be:d607 with SMTP id r17-20020a170906c29100b00a2868bed607mr1326685ejz.114.1704482201448; Fri, 05 Jan 2024 11:16:41 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: From: Michaelian Ennis Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2024 11:16:30 -0800 Message-ID: To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID-Hash: PVD6K5IBB7ZMIVMFH2R6XFUCNI33ZV54 X-Message-ID-Hash: PVD6K5IBB7ZMIVMFH2R6XFUCNI33ZV54 X-MailFrom: mennis@corvus.net 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: Lost Origins of the Plan 9 C Compiler List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: There is additional context about what was happening at the time in Rob's talk at GopherCon 2016: Rob Pike - The Design of the Go Assembler . Ian On Fri, Jan 5, 2024 at 3:34=E2=80=AFAM Rob Pike wrote: > > You shouldn't dismiss so lightly. The cited document answers the question= of the first target, which was the National 32000. It ran on a Sequent mul= tiprocessor, a machine we were thinking about using for other work. > > So no, it was not created on Research Unix, or at least not for it. We wa= nted a faster compiler for a number of reasons, and Ken had ideas about tha= t. Because of its architecture, it was easy to port to other RISC architect= ures, such as the MIPS and SPARC, although both those machines had wrinkles= that needed ironing out. > > -rob > > > On Fri, Jan 5, 2024 at 10:05=E2=80=AFPM Aram H=C4=83v=C4=83rneanu wrote: >> >> > I think this may be what you are looking for: >> > http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/new_c_compilers/ >> >> Since I have worked on a derivative of the Plan 9 C compiler, I >> assure you I have read all the available papers and documentation >> about it and they answer none of the questions raised above. >> >> -- >> Aram H=C4=83v=C4=83rneanu