As an earlyish (1995) Linux adopter I'd heard some of these tales, like the fact that it started as a simple task scheduler that wrote a's and b's to the screen

As an earlyish (1995) Linux adopter I'd heard some of these tales, like the fact that it started as a simple task scheduler that wrote a's and b's to the screen. But it's cool to hear it from someone who was actually there to witness those early events as they unfolded.