[TUHS] forgotten versions

Angelo Papenhoff aap at papnet.eu
Sun Jun 19 18:17:00 AEST 2022


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


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