For a contemporary rebuttal by Rob Pike, see "Andy Tanenbaum hasn't learned anything" (http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/andy_tanenbaum http://harmful.cat-v.org

For a contemporary rebuttal by Rob Pike, see "Andy Tanenbaum hasn't learned anything" (http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/andy_tanenbaum http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/andy_tanenbaum) See also: "Systems Software Research is Irrelevant" [2000] (http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~ejones/writing/systemsresearch.html http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~ejones/writing/systemsresearch....)