11 Apr
2024
11 Apr
'24
12:23 a.m.
On Wednesday, April 10th, 2024 at 9:46 AM, arnold(a)skeeve.com <arnold(a)skeeve.com>
wrote:
John Floren via TUHS tuhs(a)tuhs.org wrote:
Dan Cross's note on the providence of these files:
I've been doing some research on Lisp
machines and came across an
interesting tidbit: there was Chaosnet support in Unix v8, e.g.
https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V8/usr/sys/chunix/chaos.c
Does anyone remember why that went in? My first guess would be for
interoperability with the Symbolics users at Bell Labs (see Bromley's
"Lisp Lore", 1986), but that's just speculation.
john
Didn't BSD have Chaosnet support? It wouldn't suprise me to learn that
it was just left over from when Research imported 4.1 BSD.
Arnold The following files were found on Mountain Avenue. I
understood
that they all came from the final Bell Labs Plan 9 file server
So allegedly straight from Murray Hill.
If it helps trace this, many of the Chaos-related files contain copyrights regarding
Nirvonics, Inc. and with authorship attributed to Kurt Gollhardt.
These copyright notices are in extant V8 and V10 sources on the archive (and some backed
up headers in some of the V9 artifacts.)
I can't find a whole lot on Nirvonics otherwise, but looks like Kurt was also
involved in another UNIX-based experiment regarding "Headturn" studying language
capabilities in infants: https://open.library.ubc.ca/media/stream/pdf/831/1.0051436/1
- Matt G.