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tl;dr starts with a little background before the "just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu" post and describes the progression for the next ~year, including a response to someone asking how to go about starting a similar project

Very cool that it went from disk drivers to being able to run X in that time



Software was a lot less complex back then. Try running gcc on a brand new kernel nowadays - it will probably be a year's worth of work!




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