On 16-May-07, at 8:50 PM, Tim Jones wrote:
> On May 16, 2007, at 7:44 PM, Norman Palardy wrote:
>
>>> And, Linus was a student of Tannenbaum's way back then and rumor has
>>> it that he actually got a C in the class for his "Linux: project. I
>>> believe the argument was over monolithic kernels versus Andrew's
>>> idea
>>> that micro-kernels were the only way to do this moving forward.
>>> Hmm,
>>> and how many of us are running MINIX?
>>
>> derivative works .... hmmm .......
>>
>> I think the big thing about Minix is it is designed to be a
>> teaching OS
>> Principles and such
>
> Then you're behind the times ;-). Check out:
>
> http://www.minix3.org
>
> He's now touting it as a full fledged Unix-like OS.
Have to admit I finished the OS course in University and haven't
really looked at it again
The compiler books I still have as I find them periodically useful
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