fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish · 8 hours agoLinux was called 'obsolete' in 1992, and now it powers servers around the worldwww.xda-developers.comexternal-linkmessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up1171arrow-down11
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minus-squareA_norny_mousse@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up53·6 hours ago“was called obsolete” - by 1 person who happened to be the developer of a competing OS/kernel.
minus-squareSmug_Marmot@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 hours ago Tanenbaum also believed that the Intel x86 was on the way out, the very CPU that Linux was hard-coded to run on. On the other hand, Minix was ready to adopt the upcoming RISC tech, which Tanenbaum believed would drive the x86 into extinction. A genuine Nostradamus, here.
minus-squareRicky Rigatoni@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down1·2 hours agoKinda wish he was right about risc tbh
minus-squareMynameisAllen@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 hours agoI would argue he was, but it’s taking far longer than I’d like
minus-squarejdr@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·edit-25 hours agoAnd was Linus’s teacher for Operating Systems in Helsinki Write the book on Operating Systems that Torvalds said inspired him to make Linux.
minus-squareA_norny_mousse@piefed.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·6 hours agoAt university? You mean docent I presume. Universities do not exactly have teachers. Resident or visiting?
minus-squarejdr@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-25 hours agoI think universities do have teachers, but that’s beside the point. Anyway I misremembered and it was just that Tanenbaum wrote the OS book that Torvalds had during undergrad.
“was called obsolete” - by 1 person who happened to be the developer of a competing OS/kernel.
A genuine Nostradamus, here.
Kinda wish he was right about risc tbh
I would argue he was, but it’s taking far longer than I’d like
And was Linus’s teacher for Operating Systems in HelsinkiWrite the book on Operating Systems that Torvalds said inspired him to make Linux.
At university?
You mean docent I presume. Universities do not exactly have teachers.
Resident or visiting?
I think universities do have teachers, but that’s beside the point.
Anyway I misremembered and it was just that Tanenbaum wrote the OS book that Torvalds had during undergrad.