19 Jun
2022
19 Jun
'22
2:53 p.m.
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