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From: "Martin C. Atkins" <martin_ml@parvat.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] [OT] linux origins, why not?
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 07:30:10 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060330073010.751d3c12@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0b298ed1c52d3b44ebafb5781f0e810d@proxima.alt.za>

Indeed - I used it alot. It was the best thing available.

But it was the patch-hell of maintaining it that made Linux so
attractive in those days.

(That, and the slow-downs caused by Minix's micro-kernel architecture)

Martin

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 01:16:03 +0200 lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote:
> > " wanting to try out the protected mode features
> > of his spiffy new '386, which I assume that minix didn't support"
>
> Bruce Evans had a minix-386 running before I heard of Linus Torvalds.
>
> ++L
>


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  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-30  2:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-28  0:40 [9fans] new compilers erik quanstrom
2006-03-28 17:52 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-03-28 18:15   ` Bakul Shah
2006-03-28 18:29     ` Sape Mullender
2006-03-28 18:52       ` LiteStar numnums
2006-03-28 19:13         ` [9fans] [OT] hypothetical questions Russ Cox
2006-03-28 19:28           ` Brantley Coile
2006-03-28 20:26             ` LiteStar numnums
2006-03-28 21:18               ` Lou Kamenov
2006-03-29  6:14                 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-03-28 19:41           ` David Leimbach
2006-03-28 19:15         ` [9fans] new compilers Victor Nazarov
2006-03-28 19:22           ` [9fans] [OT] linus, the early years Charles Forsyth
2006-03-28 20:07             ` Victor Nazarov
2006-03-29 16:33           ` [9fans] new compilers Burton Samograd
2006-03-29 16:49             ` [9fans] [OT] linux origins, why not? Victor Nazarov
2006-03-29 18:04               ` Burton Samograd
2006-03-29 18:45                 ` Federico G. Benavento
2006-03-29 19:41                   ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-03-29 23:27                 ` Dave Eckhardt
2006-03-30  0:38                   ` quanstro
2006-03-30  1:29                     ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-03-30  2:40                       ` quanstro
2006-03-30  1:55                         ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-03-30  2:13                         ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-03-30  4:26                         ` jmk
2006-03-30 16:08                         ` David Leimbach
2006-03-30 16:02                       ` David Leimbach
2006-03-30 18:14                     ` Dave Eckhardt
2006-03-30 12:46                   ` Brantley Coile
2006-03-30 13:43                     ` Richard Miller
2006-03-30 13:49                       ` Brantley Coile
2006-03-29 18:20               ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-03-29 18:58                 ` Victor Nazarov
2006-03-29 23:16               ` lucio
2006-03-30  2:00                 ` Martin C. Atkins [this message]
2006-03-30  5:06                   ` lucio
2006-03-29 21:17             ` [9fans] new compilers Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-03-29 21:44               ` Wes Kussmaul
2006-04-02 18:17       ` Aharon Robbins
2006-04-02 18:33         ` Bruce Ellis
2006-04-02 19:47         ` lucio
2006-04-02 20:12           ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-04-02 20:16             ` LiteStar numnums
2006-04-03  4:35               ` lucio
2006-04-03  5:38                 ` George Michaelson
2006-04-03  6:45                   ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-04-03  5:38                 ` LiteStar numnums
2006-04-03  8:31                 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-04-03  9:36                   ` uriel
2006-04-03 12:50                     ` Martin C. Atkins
2006-04-03  9:39                   ` lucio
2006-04-03 13:46                 ` Brantley Coile
2006-04-03 14:30                 ` David Leimbach
2006-04-03 16:02                   ` Bruce Ellis
2006-04-03 20:41                     ` Jack Johnson
2006-04-03 21:02                       ` uriel
2006-04-03 21:32                         ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-04-03 23:42                           ` Bruce Ellis
2006-04-04  0:29                           ` Anthony Sorace
2006-04-04  5:02                             ` Bruce Ellis
2006-04-04  3:15                         ` Jack Johnson
2006-04-04  3:28                         ` Jack Johnson
2006-04-04  6:31                           ` David Leimbach
2006-04-04  4:21                         ` lucio
2006-04-05  1:00                         ` Brantley Coile
2006-04-05  4:35                           ` Bruce Ellis
2006-04-04 12:31                       ` rog
2006-04-03  3:17           ` plan9
2006-04-03  4:17             ` lucio
2006-03-30 11:38 [9fans] [OT] linux origins, why not? erik quanstrom

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