Andrew S. Tanenbaum Quotes

American-Dutch computer scientist

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Andrew Stuart "Andy" Tanenbaum (born March 16, 1944) is an American computer scientist living in the Netherlands. He is best known as the author of Minix, a free Unix-like operating system for teaching purposes, and for his computer science textbooks.

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Native Name: Andrew Stuart "Andy" Tanenbaum

Alternative Names: Andrew Tanenbaum • Andy Tanenbaum • Andrew Stuart Tanenbaum

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A lot of other people wanted a free production UNIX with lots of bells and whistles and wanted to convert MINIX into that. I was dragged along in the maelstrom for a while, but when Linux came along, I was actually relieved that I could go back to professoring.

Be thankful you are not my student. You would not get a high grade for such a design <code>:-)</code> […] Writing a new OS only for the 386 in 1991 gets you your second "F" for this term.

While most people can talk rationally about kernel design and portability, the issue of free-ness is 100% emotional.

I really am not angry with Linus. Honest. He's not angry with me either.

Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.

The only real argument for monolithic systems was performance, and there is now enough evidence showing that microkernel systems can be just as fast as monolithic systems.