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Q&A: Systematic Thinking.

An interview with professor Andrew S. Tanenbaum is presented. When asked about the MINIX operating system that he created in 1987, he replies that he chose to write the MINIX operating system when it became forbidden to teach about the UNIX operating system. Tanenbaum comments on microkernels, which...

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Published in:Communications of the ACM Vol. 53; no. 4; pp. 112 - 114
Main Author: Hoffmann, Leah
Format: Interview
Published: Association for Computing Machinery Apr2010
Subjects:
Tanenbaum, Andrew S., 1944-
Computer operating systems
Kernel functions
Electronic voting
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost