tlug: Announcement of Linux OS

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

Found this on the 'net - this is the original announcement of Linux,
posted to comp.os.minux, in August 1991.  Thought it was interesting
seeing his projections for it, all things considered :)

----- Begin post from Linus ------
  From: torvalds@example.com (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
  Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
  Subject: What would you like to see most in minix?
  Summary: small poll for my new operating system
  Message-ID: <1991Aug25.205708.9541@example.com>
  Date: 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT
  Organization: University of Helsinki
  
  
  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). 
  
  I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work. 
  This implies that I'll get something practical within a few months, and
  I'd like to know what features most people would want.  Any suggestions
  are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-)
  
                Linus (torvalds@example.com)
  
  PS.  Yes - it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs. 
  It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never
  will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(. 
----- End post from Linus --------


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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
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