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LINUX is obsolete (1992) (www.oreilly.com)
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From comp.os.minix, January 29, 1992

Andrew Tanenbaum argues that Linux's monolithic kernel design is outdated. Torvalds responds, and an extraordinary debate about operating-system architecture follows.

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https://www.linfo.org/obsolete.html

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.minix/c/wlhw16QWltI

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[–] 6 points 5 hours ago (7 children)

Argued. Decades ago. And now? Who does even remember Tanenbaums' "Minix"?

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  • [–] 8 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

    There is an opinion that nowadays Minix is more widespread than Linux. Minix is used in microcontrollers, CPU firmwares, in many other places. It is just hidden in blobs that end-users don't tinker with.

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  • [–] 4 points 4 hours ago

    Statistics schmatistics. Like sure, one can say that Minix is used in microcontrollers and all around the world and thus the usage ratio between Linux and Minix is about 3% vs 98%; but one could also argue that these microcontrollers and firmwares are not actually "used" by someone, they are just middleware and accessory just in the same way we don't count count LED headlights separately for tallies on driving (and pedestrian) culture, and then we can firmly say that ratio is now 3% to ~0%.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 child)

    Inhowfar it can be actually called MINIX in there. If you have a minimalistic 8-bit processor working as a boot processor for an Intel or AMD CPU, they don't implement features like virtual memory down there.

    I believe it is more like a MINIX-ish system down there.

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  • [–] 3 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

    Me. I set up a minix system a couple years ago.

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