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matt@proweb.co.uk wrote:
> whereas V8 begat Minix begat Linux

dunno about that.  there where some 10 (or so) V8
licences given out, so there are small n people
who would have seen it [code].

AFAIK Linus went on record that he had never seen
code to unix -- it shows.  i remember seeing the
ptrace implementation in '94 and it was a shocka.