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Is Torvalds really the father of Linux? (News.com)

Is Torvalds really the father of Linux? (News.com)

Posted May 27, 2004 8:46 UTC (Thu) by mbp (guest, #2737)
In reply to: Is Torvalds really the father of Linux? (News.com) by janpla
Parent article: Is Torvalds really the father of Linux? (News.com)

I don't think it's fair to say Tanenbaum was left behind. It's pretty clear in his response that he was not trying to write a massively popular operating system, in fact he was trying *not* to do that. He was trying to teach how operating systems work by constructing a simple one. On that measure, both Linus and Tanenbaum succeeded.


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