Cool post!!

I love Unix hacker nostalgia, this email just may go in my favorite papers folder. Very good job RA.

ThePreacher, minix is still around, you can find it on many University servers still. It is considered to be the role model for writing an OS from scratch. For whatever reason, I really don't know why, Linux took off as the pet project of everyone, and minix faded into `example exisitence'. It would be fun to read the usenet post from Patrick Volkerding when he released Slackware. (I believe it was the first packaged Linux Disto, please correct me if I am wrong.)