[ale] Happy Birthday, Linus Torvalds

[JK]

On 12/30/2009 5:30 PM, Mike Harrison wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, Charles Shapiro wrote:
>
>> He bought his first PC on this day in 1990.'
>
> Seriously?!?
>
> And wrote the hard part of an operating system that I was using in '94.
>
> My awe and respect just jumped a few notches.


Yeah. The first public release was in '91 IIRC, so he's a FAST learner.

-- JK


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