[TUHS] forgotten versions

[Angelo Papenhoff]

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 at 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
> >