From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <44298B44.3010909@comtv.ru> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 23:15:16 +0400 From: Victor Nazarov User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] new compilers References: <20060328181558.77B4629574@mail.bitblocks.com> <2afc30c8b36e542ca0a16fc6f4e4c1a3@plan9.bell-labs.com> <283f5df10603281052n683bb0c6hac604bcb27c59261@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <283f5df10603281052n683bb0c6hac604bcb27c59261@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2462cfca-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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