there was a vax compiler and i think a vax kenfs implementation, i don’t know
if there was a vax cpu/auth kernel. quite possibly not.
currently i can only find my own post on tuhs confirming the vax was a dead
end. but i am sure jmk told me he found a vax compiler binary in the labs dump.
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On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 12:32:55PM +, G B via 9fans wrote:
> Windows and Linux began on single-core single processor machines.
> Multiprocessor had been around for some time--IBM's System 360 began using
> multi-processors in 1968--but not for x86. Plan 9 first edition came out in
> 1992, a
There was an VAX kernel?
where can i find more information about it?
On Mon, 28 Aug 2023 16:25:59 +0100
Steve Simon wrote:
> i wonder if the lost vax kernel supported multiple cpu's
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> Plan 9 first edition came out in 1992, at a time when multicore didn't exist,
> and multicore was released with IBM's Power 4 in 2001.
possibly true but multi-cpu boxes where becoming quite popular in the late
1980s and these have very similar kernel design challenges to multicore
architectu
Windows and Linux began on single-core single processor machines.
Multiprocessor had been around for some time--IBM's System 360 began using
multi-processors in 1968--but not for x86. Plan 9 first edition came out in
1992, at a time when multicore didn't exist, and multicore was released with
