From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To: Paul Ruizendaal <pnr@planet.nl>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] CSRG report TR/4 was in Jim Joyce papers
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 17:36:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANCZdfqv1wVYbEKwbgj0q3CU8Cwvj7xNaar_QU9vgJYEFdNyEg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 5:33 PM Paul Ruizendaal <pnr@planet.nl> wrote:
>
> Rich was kind enough to look through the Joyce papers to see if it
> contained "CSRG Tech Report 4: Proposals for Unix on the VAX”. It did.
>
> As list regulars will know I’ve been looking for that paper for years as
> it documents the early ideas for networking and IPC in what was to become
> 4.2BSD.
>
> It is an intriguing paper that discusses a network API that is imo fairly
> different from what ended up being in 4.1a and 4.2BSD. It confirms Kirk
> McKusick’s recollection that the select statement was modelled after the
> ADA select statement. It also confirms Clem Cole’s recollection that the
> initial ideas for 4.2BSB were significantly influenced by the ideas of
> Richard Rashid (Aleph/Accent/Mach).
>
> Besides IPC and networking, it also discusses file systems and a wide
> array of potential improvements in various other areas.
>
Awesome! Is that something that will be scanned in so we can all see it?
Warner
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-01-18 0:32 Paul Ruizendaal
2020-01-18 0:36 ` Warner Losh [this message]
2020-01-18 0:50 ` Rich Morin
2020-01-18 1:14 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-18 9:01 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-01-18 19:25 ` Rich Morin
2020-01-18 21:38 ` reed
2020-01-18 22:35 ` Warner Losh
2020-01-18 23:22 ` Rich Morin
2020-01-19 17:40 ` [TUHS] CSRG report TR/3 (IPC Architecture) Rich Morin
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