Re: Linux-asm (was A patch for linux 2.1.127)

Brian Wellington (bwelling@tis.com)
Fri, 20 Nov 1998 14:30:17 -0500 (EST)


On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Johnny Tevessen wrote:

> So Linux was the first system designed with actually
> having applications in mind? I think Linus did it
> to be able to play xbill.

That may be, but xbill wasn't even started until Linux was pretty far
along (xbill-0.01 is dated July 21, 1994). Of course, it's also possible
that Linus is psychic and somehow saw it coming :)

Yes, this is offtopic.

Brian

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