UNIX does not allow path names to be prefixed by a drive na… - Andrew S. Tanenbaum

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UNIX does not allow path names to be prefixed by a drive name or number; that would be precisely the kind of device dependence that operating systems ought to eliminate.

Andrew S. Tanenbaum

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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

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