> He just got lucky on his timing... Anyone studying operating systems at
> the time (and heck, I remember owning a book "Creating your own 32-bit
> operating system" by SAMS publishing and being inspired, and I also
> owned "Disecting DOS" which was a nice analysis of a DOS-like operating
> system at the code-level book w/disk)
You could also argue that GNU got lucky on it's timing, otherwise we might
still be waiting on a "GNU OS" rather than arguing over how important it is
to put GNU in front of Linux.
Later,
Tom
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