From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: is KERNEL developement finished, yet ???
Date: 9 Dec 2002 16:26:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <at3cch$gt2$1@cesium.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200212090808.34598.pollard@admin.navo.hpc.mil
Followup to: <200212090808.34598.pollard@admin.navo.hpc.mil>
By author: Jesse Pollard <pollard@admin.navo.hpc.mil>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> >
> > People actually started new, incompatible OSes from time to time, for
> > which there were no applications, and some of those actually succeeded?
>
> No - they have pretty much all failed except M$, and that one is showing
> cracks.
>
M$ started by buying an OS called QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating
System -- I kid you not), which was a quick-hack clone of CP/M
intended to get a chance to test ports of hardware and software from
CP/M-80 before CP/M-86 came out.
-hpa
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-10 0:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-05 2:00 is KERNEL developement finished, yet ??? Ed Vance
2002-12-05 12:24 ` Shane Helms
2002-12-05 12:54 ` Joseph D. Wagner
2002-12-05 13:15 ` Andreas Schwab
2002-12-05 18:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-12-05 19:52 ` Shane Helms
2002-12-05 20:03 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-12-05 20:09 ` is KERNEL developement finished, yet ??? (ACLs) Tupshin Harper
2002-12-06 10:38 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2002-12-15 5:29 ` Tracy R Reed
2002-12-07 20:34 ` is KERNEL developement finished, yet ??? Kai Henningsen
2002-12-05 18:09 ` Alan Cox
2002-12-05 17:47 ` yodaiken
2002-12-05 19:08 ` John Bradford
2002-12-06 6:15 ` Joseph D. Wagner
2002-12-06 6:30 ` John Alvord
2002-12-06 9:48 ` Alvaro Lopes
2002-12-07 20:43 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-12-07 20:39 ` Kai Henningsen
2002-12-09 14:08 ` Jesse Pollard
2002-12-10 0:26 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2002-12-05 14:33 ` Mikael Pettersson
[not found] <sdef301b.011@mail-01.med.umich.edu>
2002-12-05 16:36 ` Joseph D. Wagner
2002-12-06 3:29 ` Keith Adamson
[not found] <sdef2367.029@mail-02.med.umich.edu>
2002-12-05 15:17 ` Joseph D. Wagner
2002-12-05 15:38 ` Dave Jones
2002-12-05 15:44 ` Eric Weigle
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-12-05 14:58 Nicholas Berry
2002-12-03 13:03 cs driver SANTHOSH K
2002-12-04 15:26 ` is KERNEL developement finished, yet ??? Shane Helms
2002-12-04 17:01 ` Joseph D. Wagner
2002-12-04 18:38 ` Alan Cox
2002-12-04 18:07 ` Richard B. Tilley (Brad)
2002-12-04 18:21 ` Richard B. Johnson
2002-12-04 18:39 ` Erik Andersen
2002-12-05 16:59 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-12-05 0:27 ` jeff millar
2002-12-05 23:55 ` Frank van Maarseveen
2002-12-06 0:24 ` Shane Helms
2002-12-06 3:00 ` jeff millar
2002-12-06 3:36 ` Miles Bader
2002-12-06 8:55 ` Helge Hafting
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