Man, it's such a shame it only works on that one, outdated kind of disk

I like how it has the sad face at the end, like: this won't amount to much...sorry to disappoint you guys.

I won't promise I'll implement them :-)

And he has stuck to his guns on that.

Mind you, there was no stackoverflow back then, so he most likely learned all that shit reading hard papers.

If you haven't read it, Torvalds' book is pretty interesting. He's a fairly blunt writer of prose - alas, no Hemingway - but has a good voice and his slightly-cynical Finnish humour comes through clearly. Doesn't have the massive ego that you might have expected, either - he knows he's one of the planet's biggest nerds.

Essentially, his somewhat geeky summer project was to implement the POSIX parts of Minix as a learning exercise, and basically locked himself in his room till he'd done it. Photocopied the spec sheet, and was 'ticking off' all the calls he'd got working. He was dual-booting with Minix for a while, which is why the filesystem layout is the same, but at one point managed to break his Minix boot, and Linux had to become self-hosting.

Fair play to him - took him a few months to produce the OS kernel that the whole GNU team couldn't manage in a decade. Perfect is the enemy of good. Open-sourcing 'something that works' was all that was needed for everyone else to add in all the bits they needed as well, and the rest is history.

https://goodreads.com/book/show/160171.Just_for_Fun

Damn, i don't have an AT disk, if i did i would try it out

Guess i'll have to stick to Linux 😞

What an idiot. Linux became huge.

life has a unique way of fucking up with your expectations

"it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks"

Liar!

Per a post on Mastodon, today is also the 35th anniversary of the founding of Ukraine...

Not making a political statement but crazy that both of these happened on same day.

I sort of remember that announcement. I ran to the university library to read about minix, but I don’t think I found any books.

15-year old teenager from Finland, 35 years ago:

> It won't be big and professional

Turns his "hobby" into the biggest, most professional, and most important software project in the solar system.

Probably never will support anything other than AT hard disks

Let me check on that, using my Linux computer. With an M.2 SSD.

"Protable" man this guy is going nowhere.