[OT] un pezzo di storia (Linux)

[gurutech]

Ciao,
ho appena appreso che google ha pubblicato gli archivi usenet dal 1981 ad oggi.

Finalmente posso leggere l'intera flame che ci fu tra Tanenbaum e Torvalds

[lnessuno]

sticazzi

[gurutech]

ma le pizze che non gli ha dato

Da:Linus Benedict Torvalds (torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI)
Oggetto:Re: LINUX is obsolete
In article <12595@star.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
>
>I was in the U.S. for a couple of weeks, so I haven't commented much on
>LINUX (not that I would have said much had I been around), but for what
>it is worth, I have a couple of comments now.
>
>As most of you know, for me MINIX is a hobby, something that I do in the
>evening when I get bored writing books and there are no major wars,
>revolutions, or senate hearings being televised live on CNN. My real
>job is a professor and researcher in the area of operating systems.

You use this as an excuse for the limitations of minix? Sorry, but you
loose: I've got more excuses than you have, and linux still beats the
pants of minix in almost all areas. Not to mention the fact that most
of the good code for PC minix seems to have been written by Bruce Evans.

>You use this [being a professor] as an excuse for the limitations of minix?
The limitations of MINIX relate at least partly to my being a professor: