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by **Ron McCart** » Mon, 19 Sep 1994 01:43:48

I will be using LINUX during the spring semester to teach a course in
Operating Systems Design and Implementation. In the past I have used
MINIX. I am interested in talking with other educators who have used
or are thinking of using LINUX so we might share ideas and resources.

Ronald L. McCarty
Penn State Erie
Station Road
Erie, PA 16563
(814) 898-6252

by **Christopher Michael Josl** » Thu, 22 Sep 1994 03:02:25

>: I will be using LINUX during the spring semester to teach a course in
>: Operating Systems Design and Implementation. In the past I have used
>: MINIX. I am interested in talking with other educators who have used
>: or are thinking of using LINUX so we might share ideas and resources.

>Abount three years ago Andy Tannenbaum said that he would fail Linus
>if he submitted linux in his class. I think the "discussions" about
>this from comp.os.minix are archived somewhere.

Do you know why? I've used both and I would fail Tannenbaum.

- Chris
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by **Darin Johns** » Thu, 22 Sep 1994 10:50:00

Quote:> Abount three years ago Andy Tannenbaum said that he would fail Linus
> if he submitted linux in his class. I think the "discussions" about
> this from comp.os.minix are archived somewhere.

Well, having been a TA several times, I was thinking something
like this when looking at parts of the code. Of course, I
didn't check who was the actual author at the time, but...

Documentation is severely lacking - this includes comments in the code
(which means quality of quantity). Other pseudo-documentation stuff
is poor as well. Ie, there are defines called IRQ_13 or such - which
is incredibly non intuitive if you haven't grown up in the PC hardware
world. Comments refer to x86 specific jargon everywhere, the
assemblers have these magical labels to absolute addresses without
a memory map to explain it all (ie, branching to 1f, 2f, 9f), and
so all.

Of course, I haven't looked at lots of the code, and I suspect
(with good reason) that I looked at the worst parts of the code.
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Darin Johnson

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by **Alan C** » Wed, 28 Sep 1994 18:30:56

>: >Abount three years ago Andy Tannenbaum said that he would fail Linus
>: >if he submitted linux in his class. I think the "discussions" about
>: >this from comp.os.minix are archived somewhere.
>: Do you know why? I've used both and I would fail Tannenbaum.

>AST is a big proponent of microkernel operating systems. Linus began
>talk about his new monolithic kernel, and then the fun began. Why
>would you fail AST?

Minix is a teaching OS. If you want to get an idea what the man really does
for systems stuff get the papers on Amoeba and have a read.

Alan

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