ignatz (08/12/82)
I apologize for putting this on the net, but I got the following message when I tried to send this directly to Jan: >From nuucp Thu Aug 12 00:40:00 1982 >From uucp Thu Aug 12 00:37:15 1982 remote from pyuxl Status: R Mail failed (PATH=/bin:/usr/bin;rmail jse ). Letter returned to sender. >From ignatz Wed Aug 11 17:38:02 1982 remote from ihuxl To: pyuxl!jse Subject: Multi-processor Unix Jan, This is a somewhat oblique hit on your request, but at the 1981 NCC, there was a paper presented under the auspices of AFIPS, entitled "The design and implementation of a new UNIX kernel", by Charles Crowley of the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque. This is published in the AFIPS conference proceedings, volume 50, pp. 265-271. Specifically, he had rewritten v6 Unix as a message-passing kernel. He claimed that it worked--albeit more slowly, on a single-processor system, than the USG v6--and mentioned that one of its applications would be a multi-processor system. He also indicated in his actual talk that he would be taking the idea a bit farther, and actually trying a multi-processor configuration. Dave Ihnat Analysts International Corporation (contract site) Bell Telephone Labs Naperville (Indian Hill), IL ihuxl!ignatz IH 5C-416 x6747