19 Jun
2022
19 Jun
'22
2:17 p.m.
I wasn't talking about Plan 9, but it's interesting to know that there
was an attempt at a VAX kernel.
On 19/06/22, Rob Pike wrote:
The VAX Plan 9 kernel isn't worth anything. It
never worked, was never
used, and was abandoned completely when better SMP machines started
appearing. The VAX code wasn't even ported, as I remember it; Ken and I
started over from scratch with a pair of 4-core SGI machines with MIPS CPUs
and wackadoo synchronization hardware.
-rob