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@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