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[-] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 54 points 6 hours ago

"was called obsolete" - by 1 person who happened to be the developer of a competing OS/kernel.

[-] Smug_Marmot@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 hours ago

Tanenbaum also believed that the Intel x86 was on the way out, the very CPU that Linux was hard-coded to run on. On the other hand, Minix was ready to adopt the upcoming RISC tech, which Tanenbaum believed would drive the x86 into extinction.

A genuine Nostradamus, here.

[-] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 8 points 2 hours ago

Kinda wish he was right about risc tbh

[-] Mynameisallen@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 hour ago

I would argue he was, but it's taking far longer than I'd like

[-] jdr@lemmy.ml 18 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

~~And was Linus's teacher for Operating Systems in Helsinki~~

Write the book on Operating Systems that Torvalds said inspired him to make Linux.

[-] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 1 points 5 hours ago

At university?

You mean docent I presume. Universities do not exactly have teachers.

Resident or visiting?

[-] jdr@lemmy.ml 7 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I think universities do have teachers, but that's beside the point.

Anyway I misremembered and it was just that Tanenbaum wrote the OS book that Torvalds had during undergrad.

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