How Linux was born, as told by Linus Torvalds himself | Ars Technica UK
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Even though Linus had rushed out to buy his PC as soon as he had scraped together the money to do so, he was unable to plunge into the world of Unix immediately, since it took several months for the Minix floppy disks to turn up. So he passed the time as any real coder would—by playing games like Prince of Persia under MS-DOS. He was also exploring the architecture of the Intel 80386 chip.