Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 27 Nov 1998 15:52:12 +0000 (GMT) | | From | Riley Williams <> | | Subject | Re: The history of the Linux OS |
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Hi there.
>> But we don't. 0.99.14, for example, is noticeably missing from >> the list --- and I remember 0.99.14 very well because it was the >> first kernel that was stable enough for production use by most >> then Linuxers, marred only by small issues such as (IIRC) ATI and >> S3 video cards vs. COM4. And it's right smack in the middle of the >> list of released kernels.
> Ah yeah, the infamous COM4 bug with S3 chipsets. Seems some fuckwit > used the usual COM4 I/O port as one of its I/O registers. Ahh, that > particular chipset designer should have been taken out and made to > use Microsoft products in eternity (with a Windows 95 Beta!).
I can't comment re the bug you mention since I've never experienced it, but I can confirm that 0.99.14 (as well as the rest of the missing 0.99.* series) is now available from the kernel version history page I've put up...
Best wishes from Riley.
--- * http://www.amush.ml.org/~rhw/kernel.versions.html
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