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Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 07:30:10 +0530
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?
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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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