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Like a math proof, the one who puts the last link in the chain gets the glory (and the proof named after them).
by quickthrower2 7y ago
Like a math proof, the one who puts the last link in the chain gets the glory (and the proof named after them).
- AnimalMuppet 7y agoWell... given how long Mach took, the kernel probably was considerably harder than gcc or bash or the command-line tools.
- ChickeNES 7y agoI think you mean HURD, Mach was from CMU and was used (along with code from BSD) as the underpinnings of XNU, the kernel underlying NeXTStep, MacOS, and iOS.
- AnimalMuppet 7y agoD'oh. Yes, HURD.
- hdfbdtbcdg 7y agoGnu always adopted other projects where needed. The existence of Linux would have caused the Gnu folks to de-prioritize Hurd. By the time they realized that Linus had a slightly different vision (TiVo) Linux driver support was already pretty good.