Kelsey Hartigan Go wrote:
I did recall that Linus did mentioned that he was restricted or limited by
Minix, that's why he worked on Linux. Being a user of Minix myself in the
late 80's, I too was severely limited with the memory handling of Minix,
being written on the 8088/86 processor. When you are used to SCO Xenix on
a 286, BSD 7 etc, Minix looked like a toy at that time.
IIRC yung cache to disk yung claim to fame nung linux at that time.
Also, Minix was designed to run on all platforms, while Linus optimised
linux for i386.
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