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But, they didn't realize that's what they were doing. You see, they said, We have a kernel &mdash; let's look around and see what other pieces we can find to put together with the kernel. So, they looked around &mdash; and lo and behold, everything they needed was already available. What good fortune, they said. [Laughter] It's all here. We can find everything we need. Let's just take all these different things and put it together, and have a system.