Chris Rutter writes:
> - What was the very early history of the kernel?
> - When did binutils and gcc start supporting ARM-based formats?
See my site.
> - Where did the first C library with ARM support come from?
It was a mini-C library written by me on the A5000 to get things just
"smash", the fileutils, etc going.
> - (Tangentially) what other Unices ran on ARM before Linux? (I count,
> I think, NetBSD/arm32, Minix, RISCiX?)
Minix patches were available, and of course RISCiX. NetBSD/arm32 was
in very early days (no console at least iirc). I started the kernel
in early `94.
> (Yes, I know there's some story on Russell's site, but it seems apocryphal.)
Well, thanks a lot. I've had to put up with a lot of arsey comments
over the past 6 years, and I certainly don't need people like you
trying to be offensive and down right rude to me, or trying to make
stuff I put on my site to be useful or interesting to be termed
"a work of fiction".
Why do you doubt it? If you'd been at UKUUG Linux99, then you'd have
heard the full story, which starts off more or less with that.
Oh, and if you want to check up on the info on that page, you could
talk to either Martin Ebourne of !Zap fame, or Tim Chown, the
Electronics and Computer Science CS admin at Southampton University
(92 to at least 96). Martin, however, has the most detailed
independent knowledge of the progress.
Oh, and please, don't write an apocryphal story about it, lest you
piss me off even more. After all, there is only ONE person who can
really review such a story, and say "its accurate" isn't there?
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