On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 3:02 PM, John Newman <[1]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.
   --
   Ben Tasker
   [2]https://www.bentasker.co.uk

References

   1. mailto:jnn@synfin.org
   2. https://www.bentasker.co.uk/