Doesn´t the "Linus´s Just for Fun" book title answer these questions? :-)
On 3/29/06, Burton Samograd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/28/06, Victor Nazarov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > LiteStar numnums wrote: > > > > Yes. That's right. Whole story (from Linus's point of view) is in > > Linus's Just for Fun book. Really Linux was just a terminal emulator for > > connecting to the University computer. Linus announce the creation of > > some working code in minix mailing list and Linus name himself as a > > great fan of Andy Tannenbaum's book The Design and Implementation of OS > > (Minix book) > > I've been hearing this "terminal emulator" story quite a bit lately > (over the past couple of months), and, althought I do dislike talking > part in such arguments, the story that I've always heard (circa '94) > was that linux was the result of wanting to try out the protected mode > features of his spiffy new '386, which I assume that minix didn't > support. > > -- > burton samograd [EMAIL > PROTECTED] > kruhft.blogspot.com www.myspace.com/kruhft metashell.blogspot.com > >
