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To: E. Charters who wrote (2376)	11/16/2000 6:54:42 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 2615

Linus on robots, fame and getting to 'yes' with 2.4 theregister.co.uk What was guiding your decision making in the 2.4 kernel? You had a lot of choices, ranging from SMP to small devices A lot of it's not so much that it's guiding my decision making - I try actively to avoid having specific goals, and with 2.4 the only goals really were SMP scalability and getting the network stack up to snuff. And that was mainly because of - as you know - Mindcraft. What's happened is that people are working on all kinds of things and some of them made it and some of them didn't, and I get patches from people I trust to do things that I think are really important....... Tom Watson tosiwmee