I should hope so. That was a year before linux-0.01 (which was labeled as a pre-alpha, not production) was released.
Uh huh. It was an interesting time. I recall chatting with several companies about what I was seeing with Linus and "Linux". One company was the Santa Cruz Operation (SCO). SCO's response was to ignore things. And that's what they did. In the face of disruptive technology. Others did the same. Others do now. The game is far from over....