On Mar 10, 2011, at 8:18 AM, John Stalberg wrote:

> What? Linux and Minix are fundamentally different.

The Linux being based on Minix thing has come into consciousness in the past 
few years because SCO spent a hell of a lot of time, effort & money promoting 
this bald-faced lie in their lawsuits.

On Mar 10, 2011, at 9:49 AM, Michael Bentley wrote:

> but I've always assumed that Linux did in fact start out as a 32bit-only 
> Minix (IIRC Minix would also run on 286).

While they look somewhat similar, the underlying architecture is very different.

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