Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Linux-asm (was A patch for linux 2.1.127) | Date | Sun, 22 Nov 1998 10:00:58 -0500 | From | "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <> |
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In message <Pine.LNX.3.95.981121231743.1865B-100000@chaos.analogic.com>, "Richa rd B. Johnson" writes: +----- | On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: | > In message <7335q7$ej7$1@palladium.transmeta.com>, H. Peter Anvin writes: | > | By author: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com> | > | > 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. | > | | > | Wrong on all counts. Linux started at the Minix prompt, the assembler | > | used was as86, and the first I/O was to the VGA console. | | Not according to a quote from Linus, where he made two tasks on | '386 machine and got the machine to switch tasks back-and-forth. | This was a long time before anything became "unix-like". Truly +--->8
But was that only for testing, or was that actually the initial coding for the Linux kernel? If the former, then I can claim to have written a multitasking OS for the OSI C1P :-)
-- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH Kiss my bits, Billy-boy.
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