Free minix-like kernel sources for 386-AT

• From: torvalds@klaava.Hels5inki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds)

• Newsgroups: comp.os.minix

• Subject: Free minix-like kernel sources for 386-AT

• Message-ID: <1991Oct5.054106.4647@klaava.Helsinki.FI>

• Date: 5 Oct 91 05:41:06 GMT

• Organization: University of Helsinki

• Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote their own device drivers? Are you without a nice project and just dying to cut your teeth on a OS you can try to modify for your needs? Are you finding it frustrating when everything works on minix? No more all nighters to get a nifty program working? Then this post might be just for you :-)

• As I mentioned a month(?) ago, I'm working on a free version of a

• minix-lookalike for AT-386 computers. It has finally reached the stage

• where it's even usable (though may not be depending on what you want), and I am willing to put out the sources for wider distribution. It is just version 0.02 (+1 (very small) patch already), but I've successfully

• run bash/gcc/gnu-make/gnu-sed/compress etc under it.

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