It is NOT protable
[sic] (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other
than AT-harddisks, as that??™s all I have :-(.
Reprinted from Linux International Web site
(www.li.org/linuxhistory.php)
Minix was a UNIX-like operating system that ran on PCs in the early 1990s. Like Minix, Linux was
also a clone of the UNIX operating system.
For a good way to learn more about how Linux was created, pick up the book Just For
Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary by Linus Torvalds (2001, HarperCollins).
To truly appreciate how a free operating system could have been modeled after a proprietary system
from AT&T Bell Laboratories, it helps to understand the culture in which UNIX was created
and the chain of events that made the essence of UNIX possible to reproduce freely.
From a Free-Flowing UNIX Culture at Bell Labs
From the very beginning, the UNIX operating system was created and nurtured in a communal
environment. Its creation was not driven by market needs, but by a desire to overcome impediments
to producing programs. AT&T, which owned the UNIX trademark originally, eventually
made UNIX into a commercial product, but by that time, many of the concepts (and even much
of the early code) that made UNIX special had fallen into the public domain.
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