b. 1944, New York City · Professor of computer science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Also known as: Tanenbaum, Andy Tanenbaum, AST
Andrew Tanenbaum created Minix in 1987 as a teaching Unix-like microkernel to accompany his textbook Operating Systems: Design and Implementation. A young Linus Torvalds learned operating-system internals from Minix and, in 1991, set out to write his own kernel.
Tanenbaum's textbooks on operating systems and networks are standard undergraduate references.
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Related people: Linus Torvalds
Works cited in this book:
- LINUX is obsolete (1992) (with Linus Torvalds)
- Modern Operating Systems (2015) (with Herbert Bos)
Discussed in:
- Chapter 2: A History of Unix and Linux · 1991: Linus Torvalds
