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 Glendale AZ schwa...@acm.org
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