Dissatisfied with Early Computer Operating Systems

He was dissatisfied with the computer's operating system (OS). His personal computer used MS-DOS, but Torvalds preferred the Unix operating system he had used on university computers.

Linus Torvalds' First Computer Purchase

In 1991, while a computer science student at the University of Helsinki (MS, 1996), he purchased his first personal computer (PC).

How My Programming Career Began

At the age of 10, I started experimenting with computer programming on my grandfather's Commodore VIC-20.

Linus Torvalds' Birthdate

Linus Torvalds was born on December 28, 1969, in Helsinki, Finland.

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