RE: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Article: IBM wants to "clean up the license"

Simon Kenyon (simon@koala.ie)
Tue, 22 Dec 1998 10:59:04 -0000 (GMT)


On 22-Dec-98 David Luyer wrote:
> Was it? The IBM PCjr shipped in March 1984, and you could hardly call
> that a motivation to write a Unix clone :-)

no i was referring to the PC/XT which begat Minix which begat Linux
as for the rest of your "incoherent rant"
well, how can i best describe it.
oh i know, "incoherent rant"

this argument si one of the reasons that i'm writing a book on the history of linux

--
simon

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