From: michael@gandalf.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Haardt) Subject: Re: Running linux in < 500kB Date: 5 Mar 1992 20:05:30 GMT
From article <9203032238.01@rmkhome.UUCP>, by rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly):
> 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.
>
> Coherent -> Minix -> Linux -> ?
I am not sure, but I think that PX-IX and (yuk!) MS-DOS were the
development platforms for MINIX. In earlier times, dos2out was part of
MINIX. It converted (and still does:) .EXE files in small model to
MINIX a.out format. The a.out structure is identical to PC-IX.
I will upgrade to Linux next time, when 0.13 is finished and someone
says that swapping on a file works reliable. I can't afford a new
motherboard and mine has only 2 MB RAM. My 386 machine was the
successor for my old CP/M machine a few years ago, so don't ask.
Personally, I use MINIX as development platform for transputer stuff,
and I intend to get a much better system with Linux. I don't need a
small teaching system any longer. I started playing with my first
transputer a month ago, and I think I will perhaps even write a small OS
for it, based on remote procedure calls ...
Michael