Andy Tanenbaum is Professor of Computer Science at Vrije University, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He wrote MINIX as an appendix or example in the book "Operating Systems: Design and Implementation." An abridged 12000 lines of source code of the kernel, memory manager, and file system is printed in the book; it is mostly written in C.
On 20 May, Andy Tanenbaum posted a statement refuting the claim of Ken Brown, President of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, that Linus Torvalds didn't write Linux. Now he has written a follow-up: 'I don't believe for a nanosecond that Brown was trying to do a legitimate study of ...
May. 24, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 17,670 Replies: 10
