OT: (sorta) (or, IS it?) [slashdot.org]: Linux: Happy Birthday, Linus

[Mike Schwartz]

On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Mike Schwartz <schwartz at acm.org> wrote:

> from
>
> http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/12/28/1438232/Happy-Birthday-Linus?art_pos=11
>  :
> [quote:]
> <blockquote>
> Linux: <http://linux.slashdot.org/tag/linux> Happy Birthday, Linus<http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/12/28/1438232/Happy-Birthday-Linus>
> Glyn Moody writes*"Today is the birthday of Linus. Just under 19 years ago<http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/happy-birthday-linus>,
> on the first day the shops in Helsinki were open after the holidays, Linus
> rushed out and spent all his Christmas and birthday money on his first PC: a
> DX33 80386, with 4 Megs of RAM, no co-processor, and a 40 Megabyte hard
> disc. Today, the kernel he wrote on that system powers 90% of the fastest
> supercomputers <http://www.top500.org/stats/list/34/osfam>, and is
> starting to find its way into more and more smartphones<http://www.android.com/> —
> not to mention everything in between. What would the world look like had he
> spent his money on something else?"*
> </blockquote>
> --
> Mike Schwartz
>

It appears that some of the above text, is actually from
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/happy-birthday-linus -- (which is
pointed to, by the first underlined (clickable) hyper-link in the /.
article quoted above -- that is, the "Just under 19 years ago" link).
      I just read that longer item (from http://www.linuxjournal.com/).
 Pretty interesting.
-- 
Mike Schwartz
Glendale  AZ
schwartz at acm.org
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