On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Dazed_75 wrote: > Maybe the quiz was wrong. I chose August as well. I suspect many of > us knew the 1991 but were just unsure of the month. > > That said I must bow to you all as I only got 60 and I even already > have a beard. > -- > [...] > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [...] according to http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux/msg/073d19aafd79cbb9 it says << " [...] In In August 25, 1991 Linus posted the following message on the MINIX news group: From: torva...@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: What would you like to see most in minix? Summary: small poll for my new operating system Message-ID: <1991Aug25.205708.9...@klaava.Helsinki.FI> Date: 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT Organization: University of Helsinki Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things). I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40),and things seem to work.This implies that I'll get something practical within a few months, andI'd like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-) Linus (torva...@kruuna.helsinki.fi) PS. Yes - it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs. It [...] (uses 386 task switching etc), and [...] :-(. Linux version 0.01 was released in mid September 1991, and was put on the net [...]" >> So, it appears that the announcement was in Aug ("25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT"), but the 0.01 release was in Sept. -- Mike Schwartz Glendale AZ schwartz@acm.org --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss