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LINUX is obsolete (1992) (www.oreilly.com)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Andrew Tanenbaum argues that Linux's monolithic kernel design is outdated.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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[–] 1 point 58 minutes ago

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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