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Kees J Bot wrote:
> 
> In article <rqt367ghkur80@corp.supernews.com>,
> Dragon <sbrown@surf-master.net> wrote:
> >I just got through reading the debate between the creator of LINUX and
> >the creator of MINIX that occured in 1992.
> >
> >Hindsight is 20/20 and the creator of LINUX was right!
> 
> Sure, Linus thought that Minix was too simple for real work, so he wrote
> Linux.  He was right to do so.
> 

I have to agree with Kees here. Linux was designed in a simple manor.
True some people say the only reason you segment a kernel like minix is
because your having problems keeping track of it all. But Linux did it
wrong. It's monolithic. It's not a great design but they've managed to
get a development system that stops it from breaking. It works but it's
not good. Minix wins for this area in my books.

> >The creator of MINIX posted a message in 1992 stating that LINUX was
> >obsolete and that he would give theinventor of LINUX an  F if he was
> >in his OperatingSystem class!
> 
> Let's see, what we have here is yet another monolithic UNIX clone.  It
> may work, it may even work well, but it advances the state of the art by
> exactly nothing.  So in Andy's classroom it is rightly worth an F.
In my classroom i'd give him points for at least having a system that
worked. But it's not worth all that much. Basicaly the way linux does it
is the same as has been done for years. Nothing new. Minix again wins
here. 
> 
> Now, what was your point exactly?
> --
> Kees J. Bot, Systems Programmer, Sciences dept., Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
