Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 4 May 1999 12:05:24 -0400 (EDT) | From | " Raymond A. Ingles" <> | Subject | Re: Ken Thompson interview in IEEE Computer magazine (fwd) |
| |
On Tue, 4 May 1999, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> Ken doesn't muck around with Linux. He has much more expensive toys > to play with than some Intel boxes. He mentioned that he heard that > Linux was unreliable (except perhaps on Intel machines), but Win-NT > was much worse.
Actually, he said the opposite: "My experience and some of my friends' experience is that Linux is quite unreliable. Microsoft is *really* unreliable but Linux is *worse*. In a non-PC environment, it just won't hold up."
His comments on Linux are only two paragraphs of a seven-page interview, but they'll probably generate the most heat.
> Also observe that if you invented Unix, and somebody else came along > 20 years later and rewrote it, you'd be pretty damn critical.
And he does have a new baby in Inferno. Still, note that he said linux had problems in a "non-PC environment". I don't know what he's tried Linux on, but his current focus is on set-tops, embedded system, and so forth. I can imagine that he'd feel Inferno better suited to such tasks.
Sincerely,
Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735 ray.ingles@fanucrobotics.com
"The meek can *have* the Earth. The rest of us are going to the stars!" - Robert A. Heinlein
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |