Z:gnu-www-ja-google-engineering-talk--0f2188-So, during the 1980s we were f/en

So, during the 1980s we were filling in these missing pieces of the GNU operating system. By the early '90s we had almost everything necessary. Only one important piece was missing, one essential piece for an initial system, and that was the kernel. We started developing a kernel in 1990. {I was looking for some way to} I was looking for some shortcut, some way we could start from something existing. I thought that debugging a kernel would be painful, because you don't get to do it with your symbolic debugger, and when it crashes, it's sort of annoying.