Linus Torvalds announces Linux (1991)

Re:Linus Torvalds announces Linux (1991) by empath75 on Thursday November 01, 2018 @03:07PM (#18357333)

I can only imagine the first comment was someone telling him it would never work.

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Re:Linus Torvalds announces Linux (1991) by tyingq on Thursday November 01, 2018 @03:14PM (#18357397)

Nope: https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/comp.os.minix/dlNt...

Though Usenet could get toxic at times.

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Re:Linus Torvalds announces Linux (1991) by PhasmaFelis on Thursday November 01, 2018 @05:51PM (#18358813)

I like how the first comment muses about porting it to Amiga, and Linus reiterates that no, sorry, it's completely impossible to port. Just way too hardware-dependent, don't even bother trying.

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Re:Linus Torvalds announces Linux (1991) by znaji on Thursday November 01, 2018 @08:55PM (#18359893)

Saying something is unfeasible or hard to do doesn't make your comment toxic.

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Re:Linus Torvalds announces Linux (1991) by usefulcat on Thursday November 01, 2018 @03:24PM (#18357498)

Actually much of usenet was still civil and quite usable in the early 90s.

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Re:Linus Torvalds announces Linux (1991) by jimjimjim on Thursday November 01, 2018 @04:04PM (#18357877)

before the Eternal September

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Re:Linus Torvalds announces Linux (1991) by coldacid on Thursday November 01, 2018 @03:28PM (#18357533)

This was before AOL.

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