Re: Minix and Tanenbaum
By: physalis17 to All on Wed Nov 19 2014 04:19 pm
> I started looking up the Minix OS (the precursor to Linux) and found a
> great lecture video on the history of Minix by its creator Andrew S.
> Tanenbaum. Really fascinating stuff because if AT&T hadn't been so greedy
> and hush hush about the UNIX source code, the world of computing would be a
> totally different place.
Absolutely true. Around that time I was using System V, and was porting
software over to it so that it would compile and run. I owned an IBM XT (8088)
running DOS and I had wished I could run a *nix flavour. So, of course minix
ran GREAT on it.
Then shortly after that I was using Linux kernel 0.1 (it didn't come with a
userland, you had to make it YOURSELF!). LOADS of fun, and even more
frustration :) Nothing like trying to troubleshoot random kernel panics.
Knight
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