History Question

[Tim Schmidt]

That's what I thought, but I decided to post it to the group just to make 
sure.  Anyone else with some 'hard facts' that can enlighten us?  Next 
question is where should we point the author of this article to clear him up 
on Linux's origins?


>From: Edward Glowacki <glowack2@msu.edu>
>To: Tim Schmidt <computer_holic@hotmail.com>
>CC: linux-user@egr.msu.edu
>Subject: Re: History Question
>Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2000 17:03:39 -0400 (EDT)
>
>On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Tim Schmidt wrote:
> > Yes, This is what I've read countless times...  that Linux was built 
>from
> > the ground up (of course, starting from the home-brew kernel of Linus) 
>and
> > at most borrowed some misc code from Minix for a couple of months while
> > Linus hacked out his own.  That's why I was wondering where this 
>supposed
> > "core of Linux came from BSD" stance came from...
>
>Hmm, maybe the author pulled it out of his %@@?
>
>--
>Edward Glowacki			glowack2@msu.edu
>Network Services
>Michigan State University
>

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