Re: [Sheflug] In the beginning...

[Craig Andrews <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey! Electrons rock!

Best code optimisation tool out for the BBC. If it runs fast on an
electron, you should see it on a beeb!

Check out:

http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html

including the first mentions of Minix, Linux, Microsoft, DOS, GNU, and,
of course, Madonna :)

Pretty cool stuff!

Craig

On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 11:15, Neil R Porter wrote:
> Hi All
> 
> Apologies to those who've seen this one a hundred times, but I've only just
> come across it, and thought I would share with those that haven't seen it.
> 
> It's a post to comp.os.minix from October 5th, 1991 by a young student from
> Finland named Linus Benedict Torvalds:-
> 
> http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&th=8ed1169d0b48c9b8&rnum=2
> 
> All I can think is, wow, from small acorns eh... and no, not the 'Electron'
> :)
> 
> Neil
> 
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