From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 10:33:29 -0600 From: "Burton Samograd" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] new compilers In-Reply-To: <44298B44.3010909@comtv.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <20060328181558.77B4629574@mail.bitblocks.com> <2afc30c8b36e542ca0a16fc6f4e4c1a3@plan9.bell-labs.com> <283f5df10603281052n683bb0c6hac604bcb27c59261@mail.gmail.com> <44298B44.3010909@comtv.ru> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 24cd8bf8-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 3/28/06, Victor Nazarov wrote: > LiteStar numnums 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 > 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) I've been hearing this "terminal emulator" story quite a bit lately (over the past couple of months), and, althought I do dislike talking part in such arguments, the story that I've always heard (circa '94) was that linux was the result of wanting to try out the protected mode features of his spiffy new '386, which I assume that minix didn't support. -- burton samograd kruhft@gmail= .com kruhft.blogspot.com www.myspace.com/kruhft metashell.blogspot.com