RevAlSharpton
November 10th, 2007, 01:33 PM
Okay, I'm doing this paper on Linux kernel vs. Windows kernel and file system architecture. So I decided to start with the beginnings of each OS. Any one who has read about Linux has stumbled upon the posts that Linus Torvalds wrote announcing the open source Linux. There was a professor named Tanenbaum who wrote "Operating Systems: Design and Implementation" in 1984 and wrote MINIX. Torvalds was a student who used his book in school, but wrote Linux without any code from MINIX. Well, Tanenbaum and Torvalds had a little fight:
"I still maintain the point that designing a monolithic kernel in 1991 is a fundamental error. Be thankful you are not my student. You would not get a high grade for such a design :-)"
(Andrew Tanenbaum to Linus Torvalds)
Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse for some of the brain-damages of minix.
(Linus Torvalds to Andrew Tanenbaum)
Now that's funny. I guess sandbox bullies are everywhere. :fight:
"I still maintain the point that designing a monolithic kernel in 1991 is a fundamental error. Be thankful you are not my student. You would not get a high grade for such a design :-)"
(Andrew Tanenbaum to Linus Torvalds)
Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse for some of the brain-damages of minix.
(Linus Torvalds to Andrew Tanenbaum)
Now that's funny. I guess sandbox bullies are everywhere. :fight: