Messages in this thread | | | From | Steve VanDevender <> | Date | Thu, 19 Nov 1998 23:22:33 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: Linux-asm (was A patch for linux 2.1.127) |
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Richard B. Johnson writes: > Linux probably started at the DOS prompt (shreak Oh! ---horrors), the > primatives necessary to get into 32-bit mode were probably done in > MASM (shreak Oh! ---horrors), and the first I/O was probably via > RS-232C. When the new O.S. finally became "Unix like", there still was > not a 'C' compiler for it. The O.S. had to be quite mature with > a file-system and at least somewhat compliant I/O before the GNU > Compiler could be ported.
It's funny that you would pretend that you know how Linux was brought to life, when we actually have the creator to tell us exactly how. And since I know that gcc was available long before Linux (I saw people using it in 1988 or so) I begin to doubt your account of history is based on any real knowledge of how it got done.
But for now I'd rather see Linus finish 2.2 than tell the story of the creation of Linux.
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