On Sun, 25 Aug 1991 20:57:08 GMT, Linus Benedict Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello everybody out there using minix - > > 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). > > I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work. > This implies that I'll get something practical within a few months, and > I'd like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions > are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-) > > Linus ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > PS. Yes - it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs. > It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never > will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(. > > Well, I don't know _exactly_ where you have been in the last 13 years but I wanted to tell you this hobby of yours got pretty big, it supports practically every piece of hardware known to man, it operates on a multitude of architectures, from Alpha to a bunch of embedded devices, runs a lot of services nobody even imagined back in 1991 and is generally considered the coolest OS around (although Tanenbaum still says it's brain-damaged ;-) ). Just wanted to say "Thanks"! -- Ratiu Petru, Proud member of Romanian Linux User Group ( http://www.lug.ro/ ) --- Detalii despre listele noastre de mail: http://www.lug.ro/
