Brief History Of Linux (#19)
Boy meets operating system
The young Linus Torvalds might have been just another CompSci student if
it wasn't for his experiences in the Univ. of Helsinki's Fall 1990 Unix &
C course. During one class, the professor experienced difficulty getting
Minix to work properly on a Sun box. "Who the heck designed this thing?"
the angry prof asked, and somebody responded, "Andrew Tanenbaum".
The name of the Unix & C professor has already escaped from Linus, but the
words he spoke next remain forever etched in his grey matter:
"Tanenbaum... ah, yes, that Amsterdam weenie who thinks microkernels are
the greatest thing since sliced bread. Well, they're not. I would just
love to see somebody create their own superior Unix-like 32-bit operating
system using a monolithic kernel just to show Tanenbaum up!"
His professor's outburst inspired Linus to order a new IBM PC so he could
hack Minix. You can probably guess what happened next. Inspired by his
professor's words, Linus Torvalds hacks together his own superior
Unix-like 32-but operating system using a monolithic kernel just to show
Mr. Christmas Tree up.
Boy meets operating system
The young Linus Torvalds might have been just another CompSci student if
it wasn't for his experiences in the Univ. of Helsinki's Fall 1990 Unix &
C course. During one class, the professor experienced difficulty getting
Minix to work properly on a Sun box. "Who the heck designed this thing?"
the angry prof asked, and somebody responded, "Andrew Tanenbaum".
The name of the Unix & C professor has already escaped from Linus, but the
words he spoke next remain forever etched in his grey matter:
"Tanenbaum... ah, yes, that Amsterdam weenie who thinks microkernels are
the greatest thing since sliced bread. Well, they're not. I would just
love to see somebody create their own superior Unix-like 32-bit operating
system using a monolithic kernel just to show Tanenbaum up!"
His professor's outburst inspired Linus to order a new IBM PC so he could
hack Minix. You can probably guess what happened next. Inspired by his
professor's words, Linus Torvalds hacks together his own superior
Unix-like 32-but operating system using a monolithic kernel just to show
Mr. Christmas Tree up.
Related:
- Brief History Of Linux (#24)
Linus Torvalds quotes from his interview in "LinuxNews" (October 1992)
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Linux is born
Linus' superhuman programming talent produced, within a year, a full
operating system that rivaled Minix.
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Linus Torvalds certainly wasn't the only person to create their own
operating system from scratch.
Other people working from their leaky basements did create their own systems and now they are sick that they didn't become an Alpha Geek like Torvalds or a Beta Geek like Alan Cox.... - If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of
different places, just write a Unix operating system.
-- Linus Torvald... - What Did Santa Claus Bring You In 1999? (#1)
LINUS TORVALDS
Santa didn't bring me anything, but Tim O'Reilly just gave me a large sum of money to publish my new book, "Linus Torvalds' Official Guide To Receiving Fame, Fortune, and Hot Babes By Producing Your Own Unix-Like Operating System In Only 10 Years".... - Unix /yoo'niks/ n.
[In the authors' words, "A weak pun
on Multic
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WASHINGTON, D.
C. -- Senator Fattecat (R-WA) is pushing for a ban on Finnish-produced software.... - Linux /lee'nuhks/ or /li'nuks/, not /li:'nuhks/
n.
The free Unix workalike created by Linus Torvalds and friends starting about 1991.... - Brief History Of Linux (#11)
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