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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!news.ci.com.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news2.new-york.net!bet From: bet@ritz.mordor.com (Bennett Todd) Subject: Re: History of PC-Unices X-Newsreader: slrn (0.8.6.1) X-Nntp-Posting-User: bet Message-ID: <slrn4k914b.hkr.bet@ritz.mordor.com> References: <W_MF.96Mar6094546@fawn.unibw-hamburg.de> <4hlv7n$nma@zk2nws.zko.dec.com> <4hn5kf$4pp@nntp5.u.washington.edu> <4ht83p$dfi@park.uvsc.edu> X-Trace: 826573963/22977 X-Nntp-Posting-Host: ritz.mordor.com Date: Mon, 11 Mar 1996 19:52:44 GMT Lines: 19 >Minix was a Linux precursor. Oh, if only Dr. Tannenbaum were reading this. He had written Minix, and almost (but critically not quite!) released it. It was a cute academic exercise, and enjoyed a brief spasm of popularity, but problems related to its distribution kept it a minor event. There was a really, really notorious exchange, wherein Tannenbaum stated that Linux was a total waste of time, inexcuseably bad software engineering, and that he, Tannenbaum, would have failed Linus for that work if he'd had Linus as a student. And now "Minix was a Linux precursor". Joy! :-) -Bennett