@cyberquixote @wronglang @mhoye iirc, that's what Linus thought: smth along the lines of "hey guys, here's a quick hack to use until that microkernel good stuff takes over"

Edit: Ish. """
[…] in a public newsgroup, Torvalds […] argu[ed] MINIX has inherent design flaws (naming the lack of multithreading as a specific example), while acknowledging that he finds the microkernel kernel design to be superior "from a theoretical and aesthetical" point of view"
""" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum%E2%80%93Torvalds_debate