“Linux was born when Torvalds bought his first PC and decided he
didn’t like the operating system that came with it (Microsoft’s
DOS) as much as the one that controlled the university’s
minicomputers (Unix). Since there wasn’t a version of Unix that ran
on the PC, he set out to write his own.”
TIME: The Mighty Finn
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