>"I remember a few years back when I was trying to play with MINIX. Tanenbaum got several million EUR and hired some grad students to work on the thing." This

>"I remember a few years back when I was trying to play with MINIX. Tanenbaum got several million EUR and hired some grad students to work on the thing." This piqued my interest, what was this project exactly? Can you elaborate on this anecdote?