On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 11:21:42 +1200, Peter Reutemann wrote:
"It has been 24 long years since the first ever release of the Linux project ..."
Interesting to note how portable Linux became from early on. As I recall from an online account somewhere, in 1994 DEC sent an Alpha workstation to Linus with a request for him to port Linux to it. Which he got working by about the following year. So Linux went 64-bit at the same time as it went portable. The only other operating systems that ran in full 64-bit mode on Alpha were the ones created by DEC. A few more notes on the portability of (earlier versions of) Linux here <http://www.makelinux.net/books/lkd2/ch19lev1sec1>. If you want dates for those version numbers, try here <http://butnotyet.tumblr.com/post/89312148/timeline-of-linux-kernel-releases>.