1997.. Linux didn't have 3 million users in '77! :-) Jim
> -----Original Message----- > From: Chopin Cusachs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 8:12 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] The Greatest OS That (N)ever Was > > > > Interesting article from the distant past -- 1977. Note an error > of fact or two. As I recall Linus Torvalds created Linux not > directly from Unix, but as an alternative to Minix, a proprietary > OS for the PC used in teaching operating systems but not > designed to do much practical. A text long widely used in > Computer Science departments for the OS course was > written by the author of Minix and intended to be used with it. > May still be used, for all I know, but there is probably intense > pressure to switch to Linux to go to an open system. > > The rest of the story, well you know it at least as well as I. > > Choppy > > At 07:03 AM 11/7/02 -0600, Larry Braud wrote: > >http://www.wired.com/wired/5.08/linux.html > > > >_______________________________________________ > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://oxygen.nocdirect.com/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
