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For those readers that are curious who Tannenbaum is, he wrote (the best IMHO) operating systems book [0]. This book contained the complete source of an operat
by ransom1538 8y ago
For those readers that are curious who Tannenbaum is, he wrote (the best IMHO) operating systems book [0]. This book contained the complete source of an operating system 'Minix'. At the same time Torvalds wanted to build a OS system. Did Torvalds use/steal or extend the Minix source? It is extremely controversial [1] amount CS types.
https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Operating-Systems-Andrew-Tanenbaum/dp/013359162X https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Operating-Systems-Andrew-Tanen... [0]
http://wiki.c2.com/?MinixOperatingSystem http://wiki.c2.com/?MinixOperatingSystem [1]
- stiGGG 8y agoBecause you misspelled it twice, Tanenbaum‘s OS is called Minix.
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- justherefortart 8y agoIt's not "extremely controversial". Minix was used as the platform Linus initially used to build Linux (for lack of a better name).
- cf498 8y agoUnless they are self taught I doubt there is anyone here who doesnot know who Tannenbaum is. Try going through a computer science curriculum without hearing of him. Which reminded me again in what a marvellous period we still are with our discipline. There are still quite a few of the guys out there who "wrote the book".
- snvzz 8y agoLinus did read the book, which is how he got interested in OS development. He also ran Minix to work on Linux until Linux got solid enough to dogfood.