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From: jwjohn@ecst.csuchico.edu (Jerry W Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Nailed down to 386bsd or linux, now which one?
Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Date: 4 Oct 1994 07:31:49 GMT
Organization: California State University, Chico
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Keywords: ast, obsolete, micro, monolithic

>>For a fun discussion of this, there is a series of articles were Linus
>>and Andy Tanenbaum 'discussed' the merits of both of these when Linux
>>was in it's infancy.
>Might anyone have or know where these articles might be obtained,
>please? Maybe a more detailed "when", too? 

Should anyone else care...

The text of this thread is at sunsite.unc.edu
pub/Linux/Incoming/linux_is_obsolete.txt.z 

Thanks to those who helped.

I'm sure it's old news for the vets, but I found it interesting.
Tanenbaum is quite the provocateur!
Cheers, --Jerry

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