<html><head><style id="axi-htmleditor-style" type="text/css">p { margin: 0px; }</style></head><body dir="" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; background-image: none; background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: fixed;"><font face="Source Sans Pro, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Καλημέρα σε όλα τα αγαπητά μέλη, </span></font><div style="font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: BreveText, helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.10792px;">On August 25, 1991, Torvalds posted a note to the comp.os.minix Usenet group titled, "</span><a class="external-link" data-event-click="{"element":"ExternalLink","outgoingURL":"http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.minix/msg/b813d52cbc5a044b"}" href="http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.minix/msg/b813d52cbc5a044b" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" style="font-family: BreveText, helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.10792px; box-sizing: border-box; cursor: pointer; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); transition: color 200ms ease 0s; line-height: inherit;">What would you like to see most in minix?</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); color: rgb(26, 26, 26); font-family: BreveText, helvetica, sans-serif; letter-spacing: 0.10792px;">":</span></div><div style=""><p class="paywall" style="font-family: BreveText, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 19px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(26, 26, 26); letter-spacing: 0.10792px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></p><p style="font-family: BreveText, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(117, 117, 117); letter-spacing: 0.084px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Hello everybody out there using minix —</p><p style="font-family: BreveText, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(117, 117, 117); letter-spacing: 0.084px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">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).</p><p style="font-family: BreveText, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(117, 117, 117); letter-spacing: 0.084px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">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 :-).</p><p style="font-family: BreveText, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(117, 117, 117); letter-spacing: 0.084px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Linus (torvalds@klaava.helsinki.fi)</p><p style="font-family: BreveText, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(117, 117, 117); letter-spacing: 0.084px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">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 :-(.</p><p style="font-family: BreveText, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(117, 117, 117); letter-spacing: 0.084px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></p><p style="font-family: BreveText, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(117, 117, 117); letter-spacing: 0.084px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://www.wired.com/2009/08/0825-torvalds-starts-linux/">https://www.wired.com/2009/08/0825-torvalds-starts-linux/</a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><a href="http://linuxfoundation.org/linux30th/">https://linuxfoundation.org/linux30th/</a></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Γ. Β. Π.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font color="#757575" face="BreveText, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 14px; letter-spacing: 0.084px;"><br></span></font></p></div></body></html>