Messages in this thread |  | | From | Rob Landley <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Linux 0.01 disk lockup - read the old (1991) archives. | Date | Sat, 29 Sep 2001 17:16:36 -0400 |
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On Thursday 27 September 2001 12:08, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > > > Linux 0.01 has a bug in disk request sorting - when interrupt happens > > > while sorting is active, the interrupt routine won't clear do_hd - thus > > > the disk will stay locked up forever. > > > > Ehh.. > > > > Mikulas, do you want to be the official maintainer for the 0.01.xxx > > series? > > > > Note that much of the maintenance work is probably just to reproduce and > > make all the user-level etc infrastructure available.. > > It would be cool to have linux-0.01 distribution. I started to use linux > in 2.0 times, so I'm probably not the right person to maintain it. I don't > even know where to get programs for it and I doubt it would work on my 4G > disk. > > Mikulas
You might want to read the mailing list entries from 1991 and early 1992:
http://www.kclug.org/old_archives/linux-activists/
I've put together a summary of some of the more interesting early posts from 1991 and early 1992 for the computer history book I'm writing...
http://penguicon.sourceforge.net/comphist/1991.html
http://penguicon.sourceforge.net/comphist/1992.html
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