Stewart Honsberger wrote in a message to Jack Stein:

 SH> 27 Sep 99 19:33, Jack Stein wrote to Steven Thompson:

 JS> You heard of LINUX right?

 SH> No, but I have heard of Linux.

 JS> AT&T owned that, lock stock and barrel,

I meant UNIX, not Linux, sorry about that.

 SH> Interesting.. Linux has been an open source operating system
 SH> right from the start.

No shit Dick Tracy.

 JS> yet, Linus managed to clone the damn thing, didn't he?

 SH> Hmm. Another interesting point.

 SH> Perhaps you should read this;

I read it, so what?

 SH> % Hello everybody out there using minix -
 SH> % 
 SH> % I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't
 SH> be big and % professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. 

Linux is still a clone of AT&T's UNIX System V.

 SH> This has been brewing % since april, and is starting to get
 SH> ready.  I'd like any feedback on % things people
 SH> like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat

Yep, resembles AT&T's System V somewhat also, a lot in fact.

                                              Jack 
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