From: matthew@cs.uq.oz.au (Matthew McDonald) Subject: Re: Running linux in < 500kB Date: 6 Mar 1992 01:33:41 GMT
rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:
[...]
>Back in 1981 there was a UNIX clone that ran on the 8088 called Coherent.
>A guy named Andrew Tannenbaum decided that he wanted to develop a UNIX-like
>os for teaching purposes. The development platform was Coherent. In 1991
>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.
I'm pretty sure minix was actually developed using PCIX, which
was IBM's (?) version of unix for the PC. I was under the impression that
Coherent had only come out in the last few years.
Matthew.