Is Torvalds really the father of Linux? (News.com) [LWN.net]

Is Torvalds really the father of Linux? (News.com)

Posted May 20, 2004 22:49 UTC (Thu) by kunitz (subscriber, #3965)
In reply to: Is Torvalds really the father of Linux? (News.com) by fjf33
Parent article: Is Torvalds really the father of Linux? (News.com)

Probably Microsoft used ideas from the Mach kernel.

See http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/mach/public/www/mach.html.

The project manager Rick Rashid has been hired by Microsoft in the
nineties.

However the big name in Windows NT development has been Dave
Cutler, who of course came from DEC and was responsible there for
VMS. (There are some anecdotes about him in Salus' book about the history
of UNIX.)

(Log in to post comments)