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

[Mike Schwartz]

from
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/09/12/28/1438232/Happy-Birthday-Linus?art_pos=11
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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?"*
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-- 
Mike Schwartz
Glendale  AZ
schwartz at acm.org
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