Talk:Andrew S. Tanenbaum

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I was quite surprised when I found out it was him.

Who was him?
I followed the electoral-vote website for quite some time, I actually used to read the website before studying for my exam on distributed systems, in which I used his textbook. So on November 1st I was quite surprised :-) Wouter Lievens 10:47, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Ah, I see. I too have used Tanenbaum's books (two of them, in fact) for my studies. The original comment was just so non-specific... =)
The comment that he revealed his identity just before the election is incorrect, I was aware the whole time I checked electoral-vote that it was him. My memory is that I found out through a "Who is the votemaster?" section (or something), perhaps with a link to "my other life". Perhaps he didn't advertise his identity until the day before the election, but I certainly was aware it was him --Phoxhat 16:05, 9 February 2006 (UTC)


Is Andy Jewish? As the Tanenbaum family in Sydney Australia is.

ok after some searching Andrew Tannenbaum IS Jewish but he is not Andrew Tanenbaum (with 1 n)... so it is possible that they are both Jewish.


"Be thankful you are not my student. You would not get a high grade for such a design :-)" to Linus Torvalds - lol. What is his modern take on Linux? 66.75.49.213 10:10, 18 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] OS developing theories

Is it interesting that Tanenbaum was a great supporter of the microkernel idea against the "older" monolithic kernel (eg Linux)?

In fact Tanenbaum harshly fought against Torvalds at the time Torvalds was writing Linux (and using his newsgroup comp.os.minix, if I remember well) because of that kernel approach. Flame-emails about that are reported in the Torvald's book 'Just For Fun'

[edit] Any Book there which teaches step-by-step coding of OS (e.g. Minix/Minix-3)

Over time I have been looking for a book which can guide say a C/C++ programmer to write his own OS. Normally books only discuss the various modules(Memory Management, Process Management etc) and stop at that, in case of book on Minix by Andrew S. Tanenbaum it supplied the source code but didn't devote chapters on writing part of the souce code. Any such book available somewhere or is there a plan for the same on Wikibook/Wikiversity. Vjdchauhan 10:48, 4 January 2007 (UTC).