From: Rob Landley <landley@trommello.org>
To: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Linux 0.01 disk lockup - read the old (1991) archives.
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 17:16:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <01092917163603.01422@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1010927175126.12043B-100000@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1010927175126.12043B-100000@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
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
Rob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-30 1:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-27 13:34 [PATCH] Linux 0.01 disk lockup Mikulas Patocka
2001-09-27 13:47 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2001-09-27 20:02 ` Paul Gortmaker
2001-09-27 21:18 ` Aaron Tiensivu
2001-09-27 15:12 ` Richard Gooch
2001-09-27 15:18 ` Roeland Th. Jansen
2001-09-27 15:20 ` Richard Gooch
2001-09-27 16:07 ` Mikulas Patocka
2001-09-27 15:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2001-09-27 16:08 ` Mikulas Patocka
2001-09-29 21:16 ` Rob Landley [this message]
2001-09-30 12:29 ` [PATCH] Linux 0.01 disk lockup - read the old (1991) archives Alan Cox
2001-10-01 14:08 ` Rob Landley
2001-10-01 18:36 ` Virtual terminal support Rok Pergarec
2001-10-01 19:22 ` James Simmons
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