> "Historical" note: David David du Colombier's 9legacy have patches > coming from nix applied (and some reverted)
Roughly speaking, Nix is based on a version of Jim McKie's 9k from early 2011. Jim McKie later retrieved some improvements from Nix to its own 9k tree, especially since there was a lot of improvements done in May 2011. >From February 2013 to June 2013, there has been some collective effort to improve 9k further, especially since it was still lacking a proper memory manager. As far I know, Jim McKie continued to work on his 9k tree until October 2013, before the disband of Bell Labs. The code history is available here: https://github.com/0intro/9k 9legacy's 9k is based on the last version of Jim McKie's 9k, with some improvements imported from Nix, including its memory manager. Over the years, there have been multiple variants of 9k and Nix, each with the own specialties (e.g. there have been something like 4 or so completely different implementations of the memory manager). A small overview of the 9k derivatives is available here: http://9legacy.org/9legacy/doc/9k/history -- David du Colombier ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Ted30b22de106b2db-M1d0608a97b91ed0ef138d2f7 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
