- Jun 7, 2003
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I was wondering, how would we call all of our PCs today? Here's a quote from Linus Torvalds:
he called the machine he was developing an experimental OS on the Intel 386. Okay well today people are on AMD and Intel platforms primarily. What would I call most PCs today? Just X64 Amd/Intel based?
Edit: Just as another example that fed my curiosity was the Motorola 68000 series machines that predated the 386/486. Thanks!
Linus Benedict Torvalds
Hello everybody out there using minix -
I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons, among other things)...Any suggestions are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them
Linus (torvalds@kruuna.helsinki.fi)
PS. Yes — it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs. It is NOT protable [sic] (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(.
he called the machine he was developing an experimental OS on the Intel 386. Okay well today people are on AMD and Intel platforms primarily. What would I call most PCs today? Just X64 Amd/Intel based?
Edit: Just as another example that fed my curiosity was the Motorola 68000 series machines that predated the 386/486. Thanks!