On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Dazed_75 <
lthielster@gmail.com> 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.
> --
> [...]
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> 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
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