From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 21:17:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 21:16:57 -0400 Received: from femail24.sdc1.sfba.home.com ([24.0.95.149]:28396 "EHLO femail24.sdc1.sfba.home.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 29 Sep 2001 21:16:46 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Rob Landley Reply-To: landley@trommello.org Organization: Boundaries Unlimited To: Mikulas Patocka Subject: Re: [PATCH] Linux 0.01 disk lockup - read the old (1991) archives. Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 17:16:36 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.2] Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01092917163603.01422@localhost.localdomain> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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