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> Torvalds wanted a UNIX that ran on his 386 PC and Sun wasn't going to ever offer that. Sun did end up releasing Solaris for x86 in 1993, a couple years afte
by quesera 4y ago
> Torvalds wanted a UNIX that ran on his 386 PC and Sun wasn't going to ever offer that.
Sun did end up releasing Solaris for x86 in 1993, a couple years after Linus' first post to comp.os.minix.
Solaris x86 was a paid product though.
Linus apparently did not know about BSD, which goes back to ~1989.