Re: LINUX is obsolete
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Re: LINUX is obsolete
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Subject: Re: LINUX is obsolete
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From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
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Date: 6 Feb 92 11:14:59 GMT
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Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
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Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
In <1992Feb5.145630.759@wpi.WPI.EDU> entropy@wintermute.WPI.EDU (Lawrence C. Foard) writes:
>32 bit home computers have been available for almost a
>decade and Linus was the first person to ever write a working OS for them
>that can be used without paying AT&T $100,000. A piece of software in hand is
>worth ten pieces of vaporware, OS theorists are quick to jump all over an OS
>but they are unwilling to ever provide an alternative.
Surely Bruce Evans' 386-Minix preceded Linux?
(Diffs for PC-Minix -> 386-Minix
available from archive-server@plains.nodak.edu
in the directory Minix/oz)
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