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Re:Diary of a Failed Startup by jrockway on Monday June 23, 2008 @09:30PM (#225809)
From the article: Linux started as a terminal emulator.

Huh?

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Re:Diary of a Failed Startup by mechanical_fish on Monday June 23, 2008 @10:20PM (#225847)
http://www.mach-linux.org/reviews/justforfun.html

Even better, a video of Linus Torvalds speaking on the history of Linux at the Computer Museum in 2001:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=WVTWCPoUt8w

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Re:Diary of a Failed Startup by thwarted on Tuesday June 24, 2008 @03:25AM (#225985)
UNIX being a corporate project with billions of dollars of capital seems to be a slight mischaracterization (at least according to what wikipedia currently says, "some financial support from Bell", on the UNIX topic). Eventually it received more support, but it didn't start out like that.
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