"Editor, compiler, and debugger" well, that's GNU! #7
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On second and third paragraph of your post you say:
If you loved a "free operating system that came with an editor, compiler, and debugger", well than you are talking exactly about the GNU Project, including the Emacs, GCC and GDB - with the Linux kernel.
As said at http://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-history.en.html: