On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 12:12:36PM +0800, 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.
Andy Tanenbaum has always been reluctant to turn Minix into a production grade Unix-like system. He developed Minix primarily as a teaching tool for his OS courses, and turning it into a real production OS would have been counterproductive, and obscure its pedagogical clarity. I have Tanenbaum's book, and I can say it's one of the best of its kind primarily because of the real working code that does what is being illustrated. > 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. > Minix was, and always will be, a toy. It was never intended to be anything more than that by its creator. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
