Many people believe this quote originated with Andrew Tannenbaum. and I think the full quote is:
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurling down the highway". I love the quote but Andrew has been too critical of Linux for my liking... Andrew and Linus traded barbs on usenet in 1992... Andrew claimed that linux was "obsolete" because it was a monolothic kernel.. Andrew was doing research with "Minix" a Micro-kernel OS at the time: Andrew Tannenbaum to Linus Torvalds: "writing a new operating system that is closely tied to any particular piece of hardware, especially a weird one like the Intel line, is basically wrong." Regarding software development involving large groups of people, Andrew wrote: "I think co-ordinating 1000 prima donnas living all over the world will be as easy as herding cats..." Linus Responds: "your job is being `a professor and researcher': That's one hell of a good excuse for some of the brain-damages of minix. I can only hope (and assume) that Amoeba doesn't suck like minix does" Andrew writes: >I still maintain the point that designing a monolithic kernel in 1991 is >a fundamental error. Be thankful you are not my student. You would not >get a high grade for such a design :-) Linus responds: Well, I probably won't get too good grades even without you: I had an argument (completely unrelated - not even pertaining to OS's) with the person here at the university that teaches OS design. I wonder when I'll learn :) Full debate can be found: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/appa.html -matt On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Andrew Jorgensen wrote: > On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 21:29, Hyrum Wright wrote: > > How about: > > "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of backup > > tapes." > > -Linus Torvalds > > This one ^ has been said (with various vehicles and storage media) by > way too many people. I seriously doubt it originated with Linus. > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
