About Andrew Tanenbaum and Computing History

 I hope to add more talks about computing history and what not.

#llm #history #minix

https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/25/tanenbaum_minix_award/


Andrew Tanenbaum created a popular computer science book.  I still may have a copy.  It was about operating system design.  Start from scratch.  And he create the operating system Minix.  I believe no direct code relation to Linux or Unix.

Except, Linus of Linux did learn a lot from Minix.




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