"it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks"
Liar!
"it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks"
Liar!
Per a post on Mastodon, today is also the 35th anniversary of the founding of Ukraine...
Not making a political statement but crazy that both of these happened on same day.
Mind you, there was no stackoverflow back then, so he most likely learned all that shit reading hard papers.
Well look at this rich kid who had access to relevant printed books.
Before internet I had nothing
I didn't even have power in my house back in 1991. Walked 5(both ways combined) miles to school every single day. Lmao.
Man, it's such a shame it only works on that one, outdated kind of disk
I won't promise I'll implement them :-)
And he has stuck to his guns on that.
I like how it has the sad face at the end, like: this won't amount to much...sorry to disappoint you guys.
What an idiot. Linux became huge.
Total dolt!
He didn't have any way of knowing at the time what Linux would become.
Damn, i don't have an AT disk, if i did i would try it out
Guess i'll have to stick to Linux 😞
I sort of remember that announcement. I ran to the university library to read about minix, but I don’t think I found any books.
the first edition of this book is what you would have been looking for: https://minix1.woodhull.com/osdi2/
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