On 1/21/22 06:00, terryc <terryc@???> wrote:
> Didn't Linus start what became Linux because Minix was only 286 capable
> and was not going to be upgraded and Linux wanted something that
> would run on 386 cpus.
>
> I think there was also a licensing issue involved in modifying Minix.


Minix exemplified Andy Tanenbaum's views on microkernels. Torvalds was
one of Tanenbaum's students, but not so committed to microkernels, so he
took his own approach with Linux.

Don't know about licensing, but the Minix source code was included as
part of Tanenbaum's book.

-bobmon