On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 11:52 PM, Mike Schwartz <schwa...@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 schwa...@acm.org
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