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Originally Posted by kage
Yes, I'm being a little nit-picky, but I want to clarify something:
In 1991, Torvalds began to work on a non-commercial replacement for MINIX while he was attending the University of Helsinki, which would eventually become the Linux Kernel.
Linux was originally written by Linus Torvalds as a clone of Minix, not Unix.
Aside from that, this is a good topic, worthy of being stickied.
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The UNIX I am talking about is XENIX which Microsoft licensed from AT&T in 1979.
XENIX used ideas from UNIX
SINIX used ideas from XENIX
MINIX used ideas from SINIX
LINUX used ideas from MINIX
There was a line of connection between Unix, Xenix, Sinix, Minix and, finally, Linux.
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From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: What would you like to see most in minix?
Summary: small poll for my new operating system
Message-ID: <1991Aug25.205708.9541@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
Date: 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT
Organization: University of Helsinki
Hello everybody out there using minix -
I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and
professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing
since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on
things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat
(same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons)
among other things).
I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work.
This implies that I'll get something practical within a few months, and
I'd like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions
are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-)
Linus (torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi)
PS. Yes - it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs.
It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never
will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(.
Because it's free of any MINIX code,
LINUX is not MINIX...
Unix??....Xenix??....Sinix??....Minix ??
Megamix ???
Linus never published any description of the internals of the kernel.
We don't know what the LINUX is...
LINUX is just different--unique and simple.
