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From: Dave Eckhardt <davide+p9@cs.cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] [OT] linux origins, why not?
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:27:00 -0500
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> Without linux I wouldn't have ever had a chance to really learn
> unix [...]

Sure you would have--at worst you'd have been delayed a couple years.

http://www.softpanorama.org/People/Torvalds/Finland_period/att_lawsuit_as_a_launcher_for_linux.shtml

And if you *had* suffered that delay, you'd have got not only BSD
Unix but also Mach (multiprocessor support, multi-threaded processes).
Or maybe Plan 9 :-)

Dave Eckhardt