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Also very interesting is the discussion between Torvalds and Tanenbaum (the creator of Minix) with the funny title "LINUX is obsolete" in 1992: https://groups.
by fotcorn 11y ago
Also very interesting is the discussion between Torvalds and Tanenbaum (the creator of Minix) with the funny title "LINUX is obsolete" in 1992:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.os.minix/wlhw16QWltI[1-25] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.os.minix/wlhw16...
- lexicalscope 11y agoMy favorite gem from that link is this quote (Linus signs a post where he apologizes for flaming Tanenbaum) 'Linus "my first, and hopefully last flamefest" Torvalds' Oh how hopeful we are when young ;)
- kylnew 11y agoHaha I thought the same thing. This read is gold just for insight in to his sense of diplomacy during the early days.
- Eiriksmal 11y agoNeat thread. ast to Linus's response to ast's initial post: > Of course 5 years from now that will be different, but 5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5. It's interesting how computer science intellectuals of this era "knew" that "superior" chipsets would draw everyone to things like Sun's Sparcstation instead of plain ol' IBM x86 machines. Most interesting is being able to read their assertions, verbatim, from old Usenet posts hosted on a (presumably Linux) server farm "in the cloud" from a laptop running Linux x86-64 machine not physically connected to a network in any fashion--forget the "WD ethernet card!"