9 Nov
2017
9 Nov
'17
3:07 p.m.
On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 10:02:05AM -0500, John Newman 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.
Slashdot coverage:
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/17/11/07/1041236/minix-intels-hidden-in-chip...
Google engineer presentation on replacing it with Linux:
Tannenbaum's open letter to Intel is also a good read: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/intel/