minix - tannenbaum won!

[John Newman]

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 at 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.


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> Ben Tasker
> https://www.bentasker.co.uk
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