Happy Birthday Linux

Lowell Premer lowell at kc.rr.com
Wed Aug 25 18:32:51 CDT 2010


THX1138, Linus!

On 08/25/2010 06:30 PM, Jim Herrmann wrote:
> From:torvalds at klaava.Helsinki.FI 
> <mailto:From%3Atorvalds at klaava.Helsinki.FI> (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
> Newsgroup: comp.os.minix
> Subject: What would you like to see most in minix?
> Summary: small poll for my new operating system
> Message-ID: 1991Aug25, 20578.9541 at klaava.Helsinki.FI 
> <mailto:20578.9541 at klaava.Helsinki.FI>
> Date: 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT
> Organization: University of Helsinki.
>
> Hello everybody out there using minix-
>
> I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big
> and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has
> been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like
> any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix; as my OS
> resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-sytem
> due to practical reasons)among other things.
>
> I've currently ported bash (1.08) an gcc (1.40), and things seem to work.
> This implies that i'll get something practical within a few months, 
> and I'd
> like to know what features most people want. Any suggestions are welcome,
> but I won't promise I'll implement them :-)
>
> Linus Torvalds torvalds at kruuna.helsinki.fi 
> <mailto:torvalds at kruuna.helsinki.fi>
>
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