Linux and the 'clssic' computing world

[Jim Carpenter]

On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 2:39 PM Bill Degnan via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> > To my knowledge the Linux kernel was released to the public 30 years ago
> > around this time. My dear friend swears by it and will never go back to
> > Windows even though WIN 11 is much more secure than previous Windows
> > versions. Prior to Linux there were other much-earlier operating systems
> > for 8-bit and 16-bit machines we classic computer users could use. For
> > emulators now we have a choice but do they work better in Linux or
> > Windows?  Murray  🙂
> >
>
> Assembly version August 25th 1991. - comp.os.minix newsgroup.
> C version  October 5th 1991 - Linux Bible 8th edition.

First release  September 17th 1991 - Linus Torvalds a few days ago
http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2109.2/03485.html

I've been using it since 9/17/1992 +/- a few days.

Jim