About the time this post was written, I ported the Linux kernel and basic userland to what was then a brand new instruction set and system architecture (the Cra

About the time this post was written, I ported the Linux kernel and basic userland to what was then a brand new instruction set and system architecture (the Cray X1 and its successor). It was much easier to do this in a simulator environment with breakpoints and tracing than it would have been on real hardware, had I even had any. Is that a debugger? Fine. I think Torvalds is off base here, trying to blame crutches for somehow causing lameness.