[TUHS] forgotten versions

[arnold at skeeve.com]

See https://plan9foundation.org/ and https://p9f.org/dl/ in particular
to download the sources.

Arnold

Angelo Papenhoff <aap at papnet.eu> wrote:

> 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
> > >