] The history of UNIX and its various children and ] grandchildren has been in the news recently as a result ] of a book from the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution. ] Since I was involved in part of this history, I feel I ] have an obligation to set the record straight and correct ] some extremely serious errors. But first some background ] information. [ Nice smackdown of AdTI by Andy Tanenbaum, with, additionally, a little leftover smackdown for Linux (which, for those who don't want to rad to the bottom, he says is foolishly monolithic, when it should be microkernel based). -k] Some notes on the 'Who wrote Linux' Kerfuffle, Release 1.1 |