Tannenbaum, in an interview I read about a year back, said Minix was never intended to be anything other than a teaching tool so he resisted all attempts to add functionality to it that would make it a "real" OS. Which is also why Linus Torvalds decided to write his own.. I think he wanted a terminal program or something to work on it.
I hadn't read that before. Sounds to me like Minix was a success in exactly the way that Tannenbaum intended! What more could one ask for?
384 posted on 02/18/2005 9:42:52 AM PST by zeugma
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