Hi Vic, On 12/24/06, Vic G. Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'd like to correct a misimpression here. Linux was written from ground up yes, but it's mechanisms, operations & internal standards were based on Unix which was already a tried & proven operating system by the 1970's.
It was never doubted that Linux borrows a lot from the Unix implementation. But the fact remains, it started as something that displayed characters on virtual consoles first before being anything else. [snipped unverified historical post] -- Dean Michael C. Berris http://cplusplus-soup.blogspot.com/ mikhailberis AT gmail DOT com +63 928 7291459 _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
