[TUHS] Early multiprocessor Unix

Clem Cole clemc at ccc.com
Tue Nov 29 00:50:33 AEST 2022


On Mon, Nov 28, 2022 at 9:16 AM Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, Nov 28, 2022, 7:07 AM Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> wrote:
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>> As far as I know, the first non-commercial work was done at the Naval
>> Post Grad school with V6.  I have never seen the code for it, only a paper,
>> so I don't know too much about it to comment.
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> I tried to find the code a couple of years ago, but no joy. And the timing
> suggested he may have started with/used V5, since the paper is dated June
> 75 and V6 was released in May 75.
>
Thanks - that makes sense.   As I said, I never saw the code, and again, it
agrees with my observation that this was 'pre-USENIX,' particularly since I
believe that those folks are in CA and the original USENIX people were in
NYC and Boston folks, so they would have been less likely to be a part.
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