we should not deprive andy tannenbaum of one iota of the credit he so richly deserves for spurring the creation of linux.
all linus wanted was the ability to distribute a pre-patched version of minix which supported a few non-80286-compatable convienences like protected memory. - erik On Sun Mar 26 02:15:00 CST 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mar 25, 2006, at 6:52 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > i've got to say one thing in gcc's favor. it was way the heck > > better than > > any other compiler i had available when it was first written. > > I have fond memories of threatining the Sun sales sloths with death > and worse if they didn't at least ship .h files after they unbundled > the C compiler. Sun is as responsible for GCC as the AT&T lawyers > are responsible for Linux. > > --lyndon
