"It will at least make our historical record on Groklaw more
complete. Anyway, it's our policy to provide all the evidence we
can find, because I know you'd like to see it for yourself, not
just listen to others' conclusions.
" First, let's look at a comp.os.minix comment from Linus
Torvalds on August 26, 1991. The date matters, because it is pretty
much contemporaneous with the beginning of the kernel and because
he obviously was never expecting SCO to make such a false claim in
2003. The subject is, What would you like to see most in
minix?:
"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 (torva...@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 :-(."
