Re: Linux 2.0

Jon Tombs (jon@gte.esi.us.es)
Fri, 7 Jun 1996 16:43:21 +0200 (MET DST)


Linus Torvalds said:
>
> > "Ingo Molnar writes"
> > |> hmpf, isnt there a FIVE YEARS BIRTHDAY this month? around June 91, Linux
> > |> 0.01 was available on ftp.nic.fi for anonymous download?
> > |>
> >
> > the linux-0.01.tar.Z in the Historic dir contains files dated up to
> > Sep 17, 1991. So we all have to wait some more weeks...
>
> Indeed.
>
> Five years ago Linux was printing out "AAABBBBAAAAABBBBBBAAAA..." and nothing
> much else. We're talking very early multi-tasking here, maybe _just_ a keyboard
> driver or something like that.

naaa. That wasn't linux, that was freax or was it freux, I forget, long ago
rmed that makefile....

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Jon. <jon@gte.esi.us.es, http://www.esi.us.es/~jon>