Andrew S. Tanenbaum

IRL Name:

Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Biography:

Professor of computer science at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam in the Netherlands.

He is well recognized for his textbooks on computer science:

* Computer Networks, ISBN 0-13-066102-3
* Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, (co-authored with Albert Woodhull), ISBN 0-13-142938-8
* Modern Operating Systems, ISBN 0-13-031358-0
* Structured Computer Organization, ISBN 0-13-148521-0
* Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms, (co-authored with Maarten van Steen), ISBN 0-13-239227-5

Facts

Born in 1944

Tanenbaum wrote the first open-source clone of UNIX, called MINIX

Rumors

After using his book in class, Linus decided to copy his code and call it Linux.

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