On this day in 1991 @torvalds first announced #Linux to the world, or at least the comp.os.minix Usenet group.
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awb/linux.history.html
@liw @torvalds the little comment there saying ""just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu"" is funny now, the way things turned out with the huge "Linux Foundation" and so on 😆
@eliasr @liw @torvalds
Simply, I'd say that porting is impossible. It's mostly in C, but most people wouldn't call what I write C.
-- Linus Benedict Torvalds, 26 August 1991 on comp.os.minix
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@eliasr @liw @torvalds
Simply, I'd say that porting is impossible. It's mostly in C, but most people wouldn't call what I write C.
-- Linus Benedict Torvalds, 26 August 1991 on comp.os.minix