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{ Monthly Archives } May 2004

Weird attack on Torvalds as the father of Linux

This article cites a really weird attack on the authorship of Linux… I remember that Linux was based on the Minux stuff early on, but Minix was designed as a learning OS in the Tennenbaum books… They make this absurd argument that Linux couldn’t have been written by Torvalds because it would be impossible to write that fast – even though it was. In 1991 I had a class on operating systems at UCLA and they expected all the CS students to rewrite parts of the Minix code… it will be incredible if this sort of nonsense wins in court.

2004 05 23 Damien Stolarz general Comments (5)

MPEG-4 is Dead | Hardware loses and Firmware wins

“Finally, it’s hard to minimize the importance of the DVD Forum’s provisional approval for Microsoft’s VC-9 technology, essentially Windows Media Video 9, along with two other technologies, H.264 and MPEG-2, as mandatory on next-generation playback devices.”

2004 05 07 Damien Stolarz general Comments (9)

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