I think his Grandfather's VIC-20 did that. He was programming on that as a child. He
bought the QL later on..
--- On Thu, 6/18/09, Julian Skidmore <julianskidmore at yahoo.com> wrote:
Speaking of QDOS - Sinclair's uber-cheap 68008 QL also fell
into Linus
Torvolds young paws; setting him on the road to fame and
fortune -
kinda handy that :-) !
-cheers from julz @P