From: chip@tct.com (Chip Salzenberg) Subject: Re: Free OS cross-pollination Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 13:20:54 GMT
[ followups to comp.unix.misc, for lack of a better place ]
According to torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Torvalds):
>The original gcc I used was the minix gcc (1.37.1) by Alan W Black (and
>somebody..
>The minix-386 (thanks again, Bruce - without the 386 patches for minix I
>would never have gotten anywhere) I was running by that time was able to
>execute normal gcc binaries directly (the only major diff I did to minix
>- and awb later made a better version of it), which is also the standard
>linux binary format.
So without Minix, Linux might not have been; or if it had, its
creation would have been much more difficult.
Now Linux and 386BSD can become starting points for new projects, too.
Source code is a wonderful thing, n'est ce pas?
-- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT <chip@tct.com>, <73717.366@compuserve.com> "I am truly as big a genius as all other Rush fans." -- Bruce Bufalini