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Comment by greenavocado

2 months ago

Linus' original plan was to write Linux to learn every feature of the i386. Compatibility with other systems came later.

See the message from Linus Benedict Torvalds on 26/08/1991

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.minix/c/dlNtH7RRrGA/m/Sw...

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zoky  2 months ago

> just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu

All I can say is LOL

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