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SubjectRe: Linux-asm (was A patch for linux 2.1.127)
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Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
>
> > In message <7335q7$ej7$1@palladium.transmeta.com>, H. Peter Anvin writes:
> > +-----
> > | Followup to: <Pine.LNX.3.95.981119125048.327A-100000@chaos.analogic.com>
> > | By author: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
> > | In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> > | >
> > | > 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.
> > +--->8
>
> 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
> this was done with MASM (or was it TASM), Linus may confirm.

Wrong on one more count.

Roger.


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