Joseph Anthony Griffo wrote:
> I still maintain the point that designing a monolithic kernel in 1991 is
> a fundamental error. Be thankful you are not my student. You would not
> get a high grade for such a design :-)
So I typed "tanenbaum" at Google to see if I can find out what kind of
car Andy drives these days. No luck, but I did find this interesting
quote from his personal FAQ. (Don't YOU have a personal FAQ?)
http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/home/faq.html
What do you think of Linux?
I would like to take this opportunity to thank Linus for
producing it. Before there was Linux there was MINIX, which had a
40,000-person newsgroup, most of whom were sending me email every
day. I was going crazy with the endless stream of new features
people were sending me. I kept refusing them all because I wanted
to keep MINIX small enough for my students to understand in one
semester. My consistent refusal to add all these new features is
what inspired Linus to write Linux. Both of us are now happy with
the results. The only person who is perhaps not so happy is Bill
Gates. I think this is a good thing.
Speaking of Bill Gates, there's a guy we should admire. He probably
drives a very nice car. (-:
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