Writing a portable OS is not much harder than a nonportable one, and all systems should be written with portability in mind these days. - Andrew S. Tanenbaum

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Writing a portable OS is not much harder than a nonportable one, and all systems should be written with portability in mind these days.

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About Andrew S. Tanenbaum

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.
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