“Don't forget that Linux became only possible because 20 years of OS research was carefully studied, analyzed, discussed and thrown away.”

— Ingo Molnar

From a message http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9906.0/0746.html to the Linux Kernel mailing list in 1999.

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