Thanks for the correction.  Here's a Wikipedia link to the
"Tanenbaum-Torvalds debate":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum%E2%80%93Torvalds_debate

-bobmon


> On 1/21/22 08:12, dng-request@??? wrote:
>> 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
> Nope.
>
> Tanenbaum taught at  Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Torvalds studied at
> University of Helsinki.
>

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