Rob - would you be willing to tell us what the novel work is (and more
about it) that still has relevance today? I'm sure I'm not the only one on
the list that would love to learn more about that history.
Best,
D
On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 7:54 PM Rob Pike <robp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> A big reason for doing Plan 9, as the linked article says right up top,
> was supporting multi{core|processor} machines. And that took some research
> because there really hadn't been that many around to write OSes for before
> then. Some novel work resulted, work that still has relevance.
>
> -rob
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 8:41 AM <o...@eigenstate.org> wrote:
>
>> Quoth dusan3...@gmail.com:
>> > Does plan9 have multi-core support? If it does, how does it manage it
>> (what files/man pages/docs do I read). If it doesn't have, how would I
>> implement it.
>>
>> read: https://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/9
>> and once again, read: https://www.mikeash.com/getting_answers.html
>>
>> (hint: multiprocessor means the same thing as multicore)
>>
>> > If it doesn't have, how would I implement it.
>>
>> it already has it, but if it didn't -- were incapable of finding out
>> if we have multicore support, what makes you would be able to implement
>> it?
>>
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