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This just reinforces the fact that you shouldn't just blindly trust what your professors tell you ;-).
by mikevm 12y ago
This just reinforces the fact that you shouldn't just blindly trust what your professors tell you ;-).
- rbanffy 12y agoLinux started x86 only, but it was soon ported to other architectures. I was running it on SPARC just a couple years later.
- jacquesm 12y agoAu contraire, Tanenbaum was 100% right. And porting linux to the first new architectures turned up a ton of hard-to-fix dependencies on x86, fortunately the UNIX system call interfaces were all copied from more mature instances and lived on unaffected.
- joesb 12y agoJust because you can succeed despite ignoring your professor's advice doesn't mean the advice wasn't sound.