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Linux User & Developer magazine; By Richard Hillesley 		Mail this story
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In January 1991 a Finnish student, Linus Torvalds, bought an IBM PC with an Intel 80386 chip. A month later he installed a copy of Minix, the UNIX-like operating system developed as a teaching tool by Andrew Tanenbaum, and began to write a standalone terminal emulator to access the UNIX servers at Helsinki university…

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