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The quote "Do you pine for the days when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?" by Torvalds is not from 2001. Its around the early 90s.
by apd 18y ago
The quote "Do you pine for the days when men were men and wrote their own device drivers?" by Torvalds is not from 2001. Its around the early 90s.
- d0mine 18y agoExactly. From: torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Linus Benedict Torvalds) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Free minix-like kernel sources for 386-AT Message-ID: <1991Oct5.054106.4647@klaava.Helsinki.FI> Date: 5 Oct 91 05:41:06 GMT Organization: University of Helsinki Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote their own device drivers? Are you without a nice project and just dying </quote> http://www.educ.umu.se/~bjorn/linux/misc/linux-history.html http://www.educ.umu.se/~bjorn/linux/misc/linux-history.html 2001 is a dead-tree version's reference: Torvalds, Linus and David Diamond (2001). Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary, Collins. </quote> http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds By the way, Talk is cheap. Show me the code. </quote> http://lkml.org/lkml/2000/8/25/132 http://lkml.org/lkml/2000/8/25/132 This quote is not from 2006 but at least 2000.