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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: History of PC-Unices
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Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 12:30:35 GMT
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In article <slrn4k914b.hkr.bet@ritz.mordor.com> bet@ritz.mordor.com (Bennett Todd) writes:
>>Minix was a Linux precursor.
>Oh, if only Dr. Tannenbaum were reading this.
It was a precursor in the sense that Linus used it to bootstrap Linux.
-- Richard
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