[TUHS] Re: forgotten versions

It brings up one other question for me though: rsc made a repo of the plan 9 kernel source code (https://9p.io/sources/extra/9hist/) (which can now be found in git format too: https://github.com/0intro/9hist) But what about the non-kernel parts of the system? Is there a chance of getting the user space stuff as well? Does it even still exist? aap On 19/06/22, Rob Pike wrote: > Aha, yes, my mistake, sorry about that. I bet I misread that mail because > of the mention of a Sun port, which put me in a nostalgic (read: resentful) > mood. > > Anyway, knowing about the Plan 9 VAX kernel might be interesting, but the > kernel itself was not. > > -rob > > > On Sun, Jun 19, 2022 at 6:17 PM Angelo Papenhoff <aap(a)papnet.eu> wrote: > > > 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 > >