Hmm, there is a different 'accidental hard drive dialing' story in his autobiography (Just for Fun) - where that happened in Minix and as a result Linus chose t

Hmm, there is a different 'accidental hard drive dialing' story in his autobiography (Just for Fun) - where that happened in Minix and as a result Linus chose to move to Linux full-time: > But in December, I mistakenly auto-dialed my hard disk instead of my modem. I was trying to auto-dial /dev/tty1, which is the serial line. But by mistake I auto-dialed /dev/hda1, which is the hard disk device. The end result was that I inadvertently overwrote some of the most critical parts of the of the partition where I had Minix. Yes, that meant I couldn’t boot Minix anymore. > > That was the point where I had a decision to make: I could reinstall Minix, or I could bite the bullet and acknowledge that Linux was good enough that I didn’t need Minix. I would write the programs to compile Linux, under itself, and whenever I felt I needed Minix I would just add the desired feature to Linux. It’s a big conceptual step when you drop the original hosting environment and truly make a program self-hosting, so big that I released the new version as 0.10 in late November. Of course, maybe he did do the same mistake twice :)