Re: [9fans] [OT] linus, the early years

Re: [9fans] [OT] linus, the early years

[marina]

Original Message:
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From: Victor Nazarov vir@comtv.ru
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 00:07:29 +0400
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] [OT] linus, the early years


Charles Forsyth wrote:

>>>Yes. That's right. Whole story (from Linus's point of view) is in 
>>>Linus's Just for Fun book. Really Linux was just a terminal emulator for
>>>      
>>>
>
>so you're saying it wasn't really `Just for Fun' but `Just for That!'.
>and thus in a way, it was the flipside version of the opposing system's
success:
>the weather was good and some chap decides to go flying that day,
>and IBM, kept waiting, decides: just for that he can go fly a kite, and
they'll allow that
>sprat Gates to provide them with a poxy little program loader.
>  
>
Many things was there for linux to be born. And any accident can lead to 
it's creation. If Linus wasn't the creator, somebody else would be.


Linus beat one of my friends to the release by a few months... I wonder how
many
others dropped their projects when linux was announced.

-- Marina Brown


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Re: [9fans] new compilers

[Victor Nazarov]

LiteStar numnums wrote:

> If I remember correctly Linus created Linux because he could not
> distributed some of the fixes he had made for Minix in a single
> package. Can someone correct or verify this?
>
Yes. That's right. Whole story (from Linus's point of view) is in
Linus's Just for Fun book. Really Linux was just a terminal emulator for
connecting to the University computer. Linus announce the creation of
some working code in minix mailing list and Linus name himself as a
great fan of Andy Tannenbaum's book The Design and Implementation of OS
(Minix book)

--
Victor

Re: [9fans] [OT] linus, the early years

[Charles Forsyth]

>>Yes. That's right. Whole story (from Linus's point of view) is in
>>Linus's Just for Fun book. Really Linux was just a terminal emulator for

so you're saying it wasn't really `Just for Fun' but `Just for That!'.
and thus in a way, it was the flipside version of the opposing system's success:
the weather was good and some chap decides to go flying that day,
and IBM, kept waiting, decides: just for that he can go fly a kite, and they'll allow that
sprat Gates to provide them with a poxy little program loader.

Re: [9fans] [OT] linus, the early years

[Victor Nazarov]

Charles Forsyth wrote:

>>>Yes. That's right. Whole story (from Linus's point of view) is in
>>>Linus's Just for Fun book. Really Linux was just a terminal emulator for
>>>
>>>
>
>so you're saying it wasn't really `Just for Fun' but `Just for That!'.
>and thus in a way, it was the flipside version of the opposing system's success:
>the weather was good and some chap decides to go flying that day,
>and IBM, kept waiting, decides: just for that he can go fly a kite, and they'll allow that
>sprat Gates to provide them with a poxy little program loader.
>
>
Many things was there for linux to be born. And any accident can lead to
it's creation. If Linus wasn't the creator, somebody else would be.