Quotes: Linux in 1991 - ... t probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks ...Who would think that Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, himself never thought much about linux being so famous and powerful and in it’s current form as it is now? Linus, in his famous message at comp.os.minix wrote in August 26 1991:

PS. Yes - it’s free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs.
It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never
will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that’s all I have :-(.

Even the creator didn’t know back in it’s early days that his creation will work on many more platforms and devices than any other OS does. This single message, albeit funny now, started an OS revolution that resulted in more than 100 “notable” linux distro and millions of user-base, both in personal life and corporate environment, in many languages all over the world for free. You can read his whole message and the rest of the thread here.

Once again thanks to Linus and a sheer number of developers, hackers, supporters, companies and community for bringing this OS to what it is today.

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