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• Brief History Of Linux (#23) Linus Torvalds certainly wasn't the only person to create their own operating system from scratch.
  Other people working from their leaky basements did create their own systems and now they are sick that they didn't become an Alpha Geek like Torvalds or a Beta Geek like Alan Cox....
• EXE /eks'ee/ or /eek'see/ or /E-X-E/ n. An executable binary file.
  Some operating systems (notably MS-DOS, VMS, and TWENEX) use the extension ....
• Brief History Of Linux (#19) Boy meets operating system The young Linus Torvalds might have been just another CompSci student if it wasn't for his experiences in the Univ.
  of Helsinki's Fall 1990 Unix & C course. During one class, the professor experienced difficulty getting Minix to work properly on a Sun box....
• Unix /yoo'niks/ n. [In the authors' words, "A weak pun on Multic
  very early on it was `UNICS'] (also `UNIX') An interactive time-sharing system invented in 1969 by Ken Thompson after Bell Labs left the Multics project, originally so he could play games on his scavenged PDP-7....
• New Operating Systems are created to solve existing problems and create new ones.
• Two things are certain about science. It does not stand still for long, and it is never boring.
  Oh, among some poor souls, including even intellectuals in fields of high scholarship, science is frequently misperceived....
• Great Runes n. Uppercase-only text or display messages.
  Some archaic operating systems still emit these....
• EXE: /eks'ee/ or /eek'see/ or /E-X-E/ n. An executable binary file.
  Some operating systems (notably MS-DOS, VMS, and TWENEX) use the extension ....
• MS-DOS:: /M-S-dos/ [MicroSoft Disk Operating System] n.
  A {clone} of {{CP/M}} for the 8088 crufted together in 6 weeks by hacker Tim Paterson, who is said to have regretted it ever since....