Re: Linux-asm (was A patch for linux 2.1.127)
Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Sun, 22 Nov 1998 10:00:58 -0500
In message <Pine.LNX.3.95.981121231743.1865B-100000@chaos.analogic.com>,
"Richa
rd B. Johnson" writes:
+-----
| On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
| > In message <7335q7$ej7$1@palladium.transmeta.com>, H. Peter Anvin writes:
| > | By author: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
| > | > Linux probably started at the DOS prompt (shreak Oh! ---horrors), the
| > | > primatives necessary to get into 32-bit mode were probably done in
| > | > MASM (shreak Oh! ---horrors), and the first I/O was probably via
| > | > RS-232C.
| > |
| > | Wrong on all counts. Linux started at the Minix prompt, the assembler
| > | used was as86, and the first I/O was to the VGA console.
|
| Not according to a quote from Linus, where he made two tasks on
| '386 machine and got the machine to switch tasks back-and-forth.
| This was a long time before anything became "unix-like". Truly
+--->8
But was that only for testing, or was that actually the initial coding for
the Linux kernel? If the former, then I can claim to have written a
multitasking OS for the OSI C1P :-)
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brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
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carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering KF8NH
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