On 16-May-07, at 8:50 PM, Tim Jones wrote: > On May 16, 2007, at 7:44 PM, Norman Palardy wrote: > >>> And, Linus was a student of Tannenbaum's way back then and rumor has >>> it that he actually got a C in the class for his "Linux: project. I >>> believe the argument was over monolithic kernels versus Andrew's >>> idea >>> that micro-kernels were the only way to do this moving forward. >>> Hmm, >>> and how many of us are running MINIX? >> >> derivative works .... hmmm ....... >> >> I think the big thing about Minix is it is designed to be a >> teaching OS >> Principles and such > > Then you're behind the times ;-). Check out: > > http://www.minix3.org > > He's now touting it as a full fledged Unix-like OS.
Have to admit I finished the OS course in University and haven't really looked at it again The compiler books I still have as I find them periodically useful _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
