Xah Lee's Unixism

[James Keasley]

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On 2004-09-02, John Thingstad <john.thingstad at chello.no> wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 21:44:46 +0000 (UTC), Andre Majorel  
><amajorel at teezer.fr> wrote:
>
>> On 2004-09-02, John Thingstad <john.thingstad at chello.no> wrote:

> No but the algorithms for memory management, disk mangement and FTP in  
> unix were
> well documented at the time. Linux Pauling started out with minix and then
> went on to make a (mostly) posix compliant unix.

IIRC, the only relation that Minix has with Linux is that Linus (Torvalds,
Pauling is a geneticist IIRC) was using it as an OS when he started 
developing the terminal emulator that eventually became Linux, and indeed
the kernel architecture is pretty fundementally different.

> Seem to remeber this from my student days.
>
> Operating Systems (design and implication) Andrew S. Tanenbaum
>
> Intrucudes minix, a mini unix compatible with version 7 of unix.
> (Not to be confused with system V.. the roman numerals were introdused by  
> AT&T)

Yeah, and apparently it is still the classic text on OS design.


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