Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Passage: Linux yakanga, panguva iyoyo, yakavakirwa Intel 386, processor ine simba zvikuru (uye inodhura). Tanenbaum anotaurawo zvakananga "... sekunge gore 1 rakapfuura, pakanga paine shanduro mbiri [dzeMINIX], imwe yePC (360K diskette) uye imwe ye286/386 (1.2M). Shanduro yePC yakanga ichitengesa kupfuura shanduro ye286/386 ne2 kusvika ku1". Akataura kuti kunyange zvazvo Linux yakanga yakasununguka, yaisazova sarudzo yakakodzera yevadzidzi vake, sezvo vaisazokwanisa kutenga zvigadzirwa zvinodhura zvinodiwa kuti zviitwe, uye kuti MINIX inogona kushandiswa pa "PC ye4.77 MHz isina hard disk". Kune izvi, Kevin Brown, mumwe mushandisi weboka reUsenet, akapindura kuti Tanenbaum haafanire kunyunyuta nezvehukama hweLinux neiyo 386 dhizaini, sezvo yaive mhedzisiro yesarudzo yekuziva pane kushomeka kweruzivo nezve dhizaini yekushandisa, ichiti "... chinangwa chakatsanangurwa cheLinux chaive chekutora mukana wezvinhu zvakakosha zve 386 dhizaini. Saka unorevei chaizvo? Zvinangwa zvakasiyana-siyana zvokugadzira zvinokupa magadzirirwo akasiyana-siyana".  Mubvunzo: Pane shanduro ngani dzeMIXIX?
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