[PLUG] World would have been using only Unix if ...

[Mayuresh]

Andrew Tannenbaum would need no introduction to folks who follow a list
like this.

This talk has a couple of interesting remarks about:

- Had AT&T not killed BSDi (a company selling Unix), and instead bought
  it, DOS / Windows would probably haven't born!

- Had his student not pointed out an undocumented interrupt of Intel
  system he used for developing Minix, there would be no Minix and in turn
  no Linux and in turn no Android ...

https://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/computing-conversations/-/blogs/andrew-s-tanenbaum:-the-impact-of-minix

BTW most Linux followers would have heard of this as well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum-Torvalds_debate

Mayuresh