> I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.
—Linus Torvalds, in a post[1] to comp.os.minix, 25 August 1991 (emphasis mine)
[1]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.os.minix/dlNtH7RR...