Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Andrew Stuart "Andy" Tanenbaum (born
1944) is the head of Department of Computer Systems,
Vrije Universiteit,
Amsterdam in the
Netherlands. He teaches courses about Computer Organization and Operating Systems. He received his undergraduate degree from
MIT and his doctorate from
UC Berkeley.
He is well recognized for his computer books, especially
- Computer Networks, ISBN 0130661023
- Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, ISBN 0136386776
- Modern Operating Systems, ISBN 0130313580
He wrote
Minix, a free
UNIX clone, which was the inspiration for the
Linux operating system. He became involved in a famous
Usenet discussion in
1992 with
Linus Torvalds, Linux's creator, about the merits of Linus's basic approach using a
monolithic kernel instead of the
microkernel-based designs that Tanenbaum believed were the way of the future.
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