From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: chet.ramey@case.edu (Chet Ramey) Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2017 12:06:20 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] Why Linux not another PC/UNIX [was Mach for i386 ...] In-Reply-To: References: <20170222161114.GT9439@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: <8c534c33-349d-3c3c-ebaf-eccf49928784@case.edu> On 2/22/17 12:00 PM, Clem Cole wrote: > But you are right .. no one was really sure what was going to happen. So > the BSD/386 iso's were hidden, so at least officially they could say the > only people that we supposed to have access were the BSD licensees. But > as I say it was a well known "secret." This has very much the aura of a private club. If you were in the club, the secret was well known, but most of the people who went to Linux and supported its growth were not. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet at case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/