Subj : Re: Unix Stories - amazing to read!
To   : tenser
From : hollowone
Date : Wed Apr 26 2023 12:22:05

 te> Linux, on the other hand, was a complete reimplementation
 te> from scratch.  Linus Torvalds wanted something that took
 te> better advantage of his hardware than Minix, the teaching
 te> system by Andy Tannenbaum that he had been running.  Linux
 te> took a far more traditional approach to building a Unix-like
 te> system, in that it's a monolithic kernel (the kernel exists
 te> in a single address space), while Minix is a microkernel
 te> (services are logically distinct and isolated from one
 te> another, and communicate via message-passing).  Famously,
 te> Tannenbaum took Torvalds to task for this decision, declaring
 te> Linux obsolete before it was finished.  Of course, it is now,
 te> by far, the most popular and important operating system in
 te> the world.

I just kept the Linux part as quotation but the whole story is just amazing reading! All such stories deserve separate thread!

-h1

.... Xerox Alto was the thing. Anything after we use is just a mere copy.

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