From: osynw@giac1.oscs.montana.edu (Nate Williams) Subject: Re: Running linux in < 500kB Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1992 15:51:55 GMT
Bzzzt, close, but wrong answer. The platform Andy used was PC/IX, unix on
the 8088 written by ISC for IBM. Close. Actually, PC/IX is very similar
to Coherent, but they quit marketing it a long time ago.
>a guy named Linus Torvald decided he was sick of Minix and wrote Linux using
>Minix as the development platform. At some point, someone will decide that
>they can write a much better kernel than Linux. And they will use Linux as
>the development platform.
>
>Coherent -> Minix -> Linux -> ?
PC/IX -> Minix -> Linux -> ?
>
>There has to be a certain amount of sophistication at every level to develop
>something that surpasses the previous generation.
>
>--
>
>Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP unixland!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP
Nate
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