Horst Herb wrote: > On Sunday 24 September 2006 17:16, Tim Churches wrote: >> Torvalds wrote a clone of the Minix kernel, which was indeed pretty >> minimal. If the aim is to clone one of the existing closed source GP > > Tim, > > I reckon you are a bit our of your depth now. > > It's like stating that the builders of a modern racing yacht made a clone of > a > coracle. > > Have you even read Tannenbaum's book?
Nope. > Have you ever even played with Minix? >From Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel ), in Torvalds own words: " * 25 August 1991 - Torvalds posts to comp.os.minix: [1] Linux (kernel) I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since April, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things)." > Of lately you tend to make rather bold yet rather unjustified statements Perhaps I'm not completely alone in that failing... Tim C _______________________________________________ Gpcg_talk mailing list [email protected] http://ozdocit.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gpcg_talk
