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Just the facts. (Correction)

Linux was based on Minix.

Per Linus Torvalds: "I originally used minix for
linux developement, and the standard filesystem is still mostly compatible with the original minix fs (ie you can mount the same partitions both from minix and linux)."

And in 1992, Linux:
- Ran in full 32-bit protected mode, giving each process a 3GB process space (1GB used for virtual kernel memory).
- Supported paging to disk, shared libraries etc.
- Needed 2MB physical RAM minimum, with >=4MB preferred for good performance.
- Supported virtual filesystems: the standard kernel understood the minix fs, DOS disks (non-stacked), and a ext-fs format, giving 255 char
character names.

What point was Windows at then? 32-bit??? 255 character???

Posted by: SC-man   Posted on: 12/18/03 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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