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*NONE* <funny9490@yahoo.com> writes:

> Hi, I was just wondering how did you make BSD, how many people did it
> take you, and how long it took to make? I want to see if I and a team
> of programmers has what its got to make an OS one day.

Not that I have a good answer to that one, but it might be that you find
the "Can One Person Write a Kernel?" part of this article by
Andrew Tanenbaum interesting:

http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/rebuttal/