Sinclair QL
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The Sinclair QL is a personal computer launched by Sinclair Research in 1984, as an upper-end counterpart to the ZX Spectrum.
Sinclair QL Top
Motorola 68008 and ZX8301 on the QL's PCB
QL internals (with Minerva ROM fitted)
Bundled Psion application software on Microdrive cartridges
Linus Torvalds
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Linus Benedict Torvalds is a Finnish and American software engineer who is the creator and lead developer of the Linux kernel since 1991. He also created the distributed version control system Git.
Sinclair QL
…Excise Department, but its success was generally limited. In the late 1980s they were used in bingo halls to allow a country-wide networked bingo game. Linus Torvalds has attributed his eventually developing the Linux kernel, likewise having pre-emptive multitasking, in part to having owned a Sinclair QL in the 1980s…
Torvalds at the LinuxCon Europe 2014
Torvalds in 2002
Linus Torvalds (centre) receiving the 2018 IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics Award from ICCE 2018 Conference Chair Saraju Mohanty (left) and IEEE President James A. Jefferies (right) at ICCE 2018 on 12 January 2018 in Las Vegas