Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote their own device drivers? [...] I can (well, almost) hear you asking yourselves "why?". Hurd will be out in a year (or two, or next month, who knows), and I've already got minix. (Linus Torvalds)

Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote their own device drivers? [...] I can (well, almost) hear you asking yourselves "why?". Hurd will be out in a year (or two, or next month, who knows), and I've already got minix.

Linus Torvalds

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