From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] [OT] linus, the early years
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:22:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <209fcc27592929cdfd60983a157caa35@terzarima.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44298B44.3010909@comtv.ru>
>>Yes. That's right. Whole story (from Linus's point of view) is in
>>Linus's Just for Fun book. Really Linux was just a terminal emulator for
so you're saying it wasn't really `Just for Fun' but `Just for That!'.
and thus in a way, it was the flipside version of the opposing system's success:
the weather was good and some chap decides to go flying that day,
and IBM, kept waiting, decides: just for that he can go fly a kite, and they'll allow that
sprat Gates to provide them with a poxy little program loader.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-28 19:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-28 0:40 [9fans] new compilers erik quanstrom
2006-03-28 17:52 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-03-28 18:15 ` Bakul Shah
2006-03-28 18:29 ` Sape Mullender
2006-03-28 18:52 ` LiteStar numnums
2006-03-28 19:13 ` [9fans] [OT] hypothetical questions Russ Cox
2006-03-28 19:28 ` Brantley Coile
2006-03-28 20:26 ` LiteStar numnums
2006-03-28 21:18 ` Lou Kamenov
2006-03-29 6:14 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-03-28 19:41 ` David Leimbach
2006-03-28 19:15 ` [9fans] new compilers Victor Nazarov
2006-03-28 19:22 ` Charles Forsyth [this message]
2006-03-28 20:07 ` [9fans] [OT] linus, the early years Victor Nazarov
2006-03-29 16:33 ` [9fans] new compilers Burton Samograd
2006-03-29 16:49 ` [9fans] [OT] linux origins, why not? Victor Nazarov
2006-03-29 18:04 ` Burton Samograd
2006-03-29 18:45 ` Federico G. Benavento
2006-03-29 19:41 ` andrey mirtchovski
2006-03-29 23:27 ` Dave Eckhardt
2006-03-30 0:38 ` quanstro
2006-03-30 1:29 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-03-30 2:40 ` quanstro
2006-03-30 1:55 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-03-30 2:13 ` Roman Shaposhnick
2006-03-30 4:26 ` jmk
2006-03-30 16:08 ` David Leimbach
2006-03-30 16:02 ` David Leimbach
2006-03-30 18:14 ` Dave Eckhardt
2006-03-30 12:46 ` Brantley Coile
2006-03-30 13:43 ` Richard Miller
2006-03-30 13:49 ` Brantley Coile
2006-03-29 18:20 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-03-29 18:58 ` Victor Nazarov
2006-03-29 23:16 ` lucio
2006-03-30 2:00 ` Martin C. Atkins
2006-03-30 5:06 ` lucio
2006-03-29 21:17 ` [9fans] new compilers Francisco J Ballesteros
2006-03-29 21:44 ` Wes Kussmaul
2006-04-02 18:17 ` Aharon Robbins
2006-04-02 18:33 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-04-02 19:47 ` lucio
2006-04-02 20:12 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-04-02 20:16 ` LiteStar numnums
2006-04-03 4:35 ` lucio
2006-04-03 5:38 ` George Michaelson
2006-04-03 6:45 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-04-03 5:38 ` LiteStar numnums
2006-04-03 8:31 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2006-04-03 9:36 ` uriel
2006-04-03 12:50 ` Martin C. Atkins
2006-04-03 9:39 ` lucio
2006-04-03 13:46 ` Brantley Coile
2006-04-03 14:30 ` David Leimbach
2006-04-03 16:02 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-04-03 20:41 ` Jack Johnson
2006-04-03 21:02 ` uriel
2006-04-03 21:32 ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-04-03 23:42 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-04-04 0:29 ` Anthony Sorace
2006-04-04 5:02 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-04-04 3:15 ` Jack Johnson
2006-04-04 3:28 ` Jack Johnson
2006-04-04 6:31 ` David Leimbach
2006-04-04 4:21 ` lucio
2006-04-05 1:00 ` Brantley Coile
2006-04-05 4:35 ` Bruce Ellis
2006-04-04 12:31 ` rog
2006-04-03 3:17 ` plan9
2006-04-03 4:17 ` lucio
2006-03-29 2:50 [9fans] [OT] linus, the early years marina
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