On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 04:18:28PM +0000, Ben Tasker wrote:
On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 3:02 PM, John Newman <jnn@synfin.org> wrote:
It's funny looking back at the ancient flame war between Tannenbaum & Torvalds... and now it turns out there is a copy of Minix running at ring -3 in every Intel CPU out there! Sweet fucking christmas.
If I remember rightly, though, in that flame war he also criticised Linux for running on x86 as it was a dead (or perhaps he said short-lived) platform that no-one would be running in future (wasn't it MIPS he thought would dominate?). So there's also a certain irony to the architecture that Minix is now (effectively) the most dominant OS on.
Yeah, as I recall there was a lot of speculation that people would be running GNU HURD on their SPARCs (or other RISC processors) in the "near future"... :) Which of course never happened.
-- Ben Tasker https://www.bentasker.co.uk