19 Jun
2022
19 Jun
'22
3:02 p.m.
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
>