minix - tannenbaum won!

[jnn at synfin.org (John Newman)]

On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 10:02:05AM -0500, John Newman wrote:
> It's funny looking back at the ancient flame war between Tannenbaum &
> Torvalds... and now it turns out there is a copy of Minix running at
> ring -3 in every Intel CPU out there! Sweet fucking christmas.
> 
> Slashdot coverage:
> 
> https://tech.slashdot.org/story/17/11/07/1041236/minix-intels-hidden-in-chip-operating-system
> 
> 
> Google engineer presentation on replacing it with Linux:
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iffTJ1vPCSo


Tannenbaum's open letter to Intel is also a good read:

http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/intel/
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