I even wrote a small DOS virus in assember myself (never released it, just as a study).
I did an evening course in x86 assembler at a college in the UK many years ago. In our first lesson the tutor showed us how to write a boot sector virus for DOS - I thought it was quite an amusing way to motivate us!
Linux would not exist without the annoying aspects of GNU and the FSF. They would have made their own kernel in a timely fashion and Linus may never have been motivated to make his own.
Interestingly, the original architect of the Hurd kernel wanted to use 4.4BSD as a starting point, but was overrulled by Stallman who wanted to use Mach.
The company claims that it's one of the best releases till date
Well, you would rather hope so.
Ladyada created the brilliant x0xb0x - a faithful recreation of the Roland TB-303 synthesiser and sequencer, but with MIDI and a flashable firmware. It's a a brilliant device, and acknowledged that what made the 303 so good was the combination of synthesiser and sequencer. All previous clones had imitated the sound generation aspects alone.
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