From: "David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Cc: chippo@rmbam.co.za
Subject: Re: [9fans] new compilers
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 07:30:29 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e1162e60604030730o16e46789xfc171a4109180f74@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <adb650e52ac522e2d5a679e31edecf82@proxima.alt.za>
On 4/2/06, lucio@proxima.alt.za <lucio@proxima.alt.za> wrote:
> > The whole AT&T vs. BSD lawsuit fiasco scared alot of people away from BSD.
>
> Professionals, maybe, but backyard hackers had little reason to care.
> I looked at Linux and at 386BSD (and QNX and BSDi) and 386BSD came up
> tops. Linux had no graphics (nor had the BSDs) and KA9Q as networking
> (so did the Unix PC, a little earlier, that's what I cut my teeth on),
> so there was some other factor there that I did not see, then or now.
> Crazily, it may have been the GNU licence, but I'm not convinced.
>
> I'll need to ask my Linux guru (CCed).
>
> ++L
>
>
Alan Cox of Linux fame says he used linux because it had FP emulation.
(IIRC). Otherwise he'd have used 386BSD instead.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-03 14:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 155+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-28 0:40 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
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 [this message]
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
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-04-03 22:54 erik quanstrom
2006-03-31 14:42 erik quanstrom
2006-03-31 13:27 erik quanstrom
2006-03-31 14:47 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-03-31 12:31 Fco. J. Ballesteros
2006-03-31 12:53 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-03-31 13:23 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-03-31 14:42 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-03-31 9:17 Fco. J. Ballesteros
2006-03-31 9:40 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-03-31 9:42 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-03-31 9:43 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-03-31 9:46 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-03-31 9:48 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-03-31 9:56 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-03-31 10:01 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-03-31 10:03 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-03-31 10:08 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-03-31 14:58 ` David Leimbach
2006-03-31 15:01 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-03-31 22:02 ` Taj Khattra
2006-04-03 16:21 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-04-03 17:17 ` Paul Lalonde
2006-04-03 19:01 ` Artem Letko
2006-04-03 19:22 ` Paul Lalonde
2006-03-30 20:14 Steve Simon
2006-03-29 1:18 erik quanstrom
2006-03-28 0:30 erik quanstrom
2006-03-25 13:56 Russ Cox
2006-03-25 19:48 ` David Leimbach
2006-03-25 19:53 ` Burton Samograd
2006-03-25 19:59 ` David Leimbach
2006-03-25 20:02 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-03-25 21:25 ` Brantley Coile
2006-03-25 21:28 ` quanstro
2006-03-25 21:33 ` Brantley Coile
2006-03-25 22:42 ` quanstro
2006-03-25 22:46 ` quanstro
2006-03-26 1:46 ` jmk
2006-03-26 2:52 ` quanstro
2006-03-26 8:14 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-03-26 8:41 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-03-26 17:06 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-03-26 17:00 ` David Leimbach
2006-03-27 17:31 ` rog
2006-03-27 19:01 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-03-27 19:15 ` Paul Lalonde
2006-03-27 19:21 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-03-30 17:41 ` rog
2006-03-30 17:44 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-03-30 18:24 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-03-30 17:51 ` Christoph Lohmann
2006-03-30 17:54 ` Sape Mullender
2006-03-30 18:30 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-03-30 18:43 ` Gabriel Diaz
2006-03-30 18:48 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-03-30 18:51 ` Gabriel Diaz
2006-03-30 18:51 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-03-30 21:00 ` Bakul Shah
2006-03-30 23:16 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-03-30 23:23 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-03-31 6:16 ` uriel
2006-03-31 7:56 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-03-31 9:04 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-03-30 23:32 ` Adrian Tritschler
2006-03-30 17:57 ` rog
2006-03-30 18:27 ` rog
2006-03-30 20:46 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-03-31 1:15 ` Steve Simon
2006-03-31 1:24 ` Russ Cox
2006-03-31 2:00 ` Joel Salomon
2006-03-31 2:26 ` Martin C. Atkins
2006-03-31 8:46 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-03-31 8:49 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-03-31 21:40 ` Taj Khattra
2006-03-31 4:24 ` Jack Johnson
2006-03-31 4:33 ` veritosproject
2006-03-30 17:58 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-03-30 18:03 ` jmk
2006-03-30 18:13 ` Brantley Coile
2006-03-30 18:57 ` Burton Samograd
2006-03-30 19:15 ` David Leimbach
2006-03-30 19:22 ` Charles Forsyth
2006-03-30 19:29 ` Rob Pike
2006-03-30 19:58 ` David Leimbach
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