Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Born 16 March 1944
From New York City, New York, United States · Nationality: United States
Andrew Stuart "Andy" Tanenbaum (sometimes referred to by the handle ast) (born March 16, 1944) is an American computer scientist and professor emeritus of computer science at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam 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, regarded as standard texts in the field. He regards his teaching job as his most important work. Since 2004 he has operated Electoral-vote.com, a website dedicated to analysis of polling data in federal elections in the United States.
Quotes
“The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from.”
p. 254 “However, as every parent of a small child knows, converting a large object into small fragments is considerably easier than the reverse process.”
p. 428 “Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.”
p. 83 “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.”
The "Linux is Obsolete" Debate “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.”
p. 40
Quotes from Wikiquote (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Books by Andrew S. Tanenbaum in order
Books by Andrew S. Tanenbaum in the order they were published, from Design and Implementation of an ALGOL 68 Virtual Machine (1973) to Lecture PowerPoints for Computer Networks (2021).
- 1Design and Implementation of an ALGOL 68 Virtual MachineDesign and Implementation of an ALGOL 68 Virtual Machine1973
- 2Structured Computer Organization
Structured Computer Organization1976 - 3Guidelines for Program PortabilityGuidelines for Program Portability1977
- 4Operating Systems
Operating Systems1987 - 5Minix for the IBM Pc, Xt, and at Reference Manual
Minix for the IBM Pc, Xt, and at Reference Manual1988 - 6Organizacion Computadoras
Organizacion Computadoras1989 - 7Computer Networks
Computer Networks1992 - 8Computer Networks Greek EditionComputer Networks Greek Edition1992
- 9Minix 1.5 for the Sun Sparcstation/Software and Reference MaMinix 1.5 for the Sun Sparcstation/Software and Reference Manual1992
- 10Sistemas Operativos Modernos
Sistemas Operativos Modernos1992 - 11Distributed Operating Systems
Distributed Operating Systems1995 - 12Structured Computer Organisation
Structured Computer Organisation2000 - 13Distributed Systems
Distributed Systems2001 - 14Architecture De L'ordinateur 5e Edition
Architecture De L'ordinateur 5e Edition2006 - 15Organizacao Estruturada De ComputadoresOrganizacao Estruturada De Computadores2013
- 16Rechnerarchitektur
Rechnerarchitektur2014 - 17Companion Website for Computer NetworksCompanion Website for Computer Networks2021
- 18Instructor Solutions Manual for Computer NetworksInstructor Solutions Manual for Computer Networks2021
- 19Lecture PowerPoints for Computer NetworksLecture PowerPoints for Computer Networks2021
- 20Architecture de l'ordinateur, 4e éditionArchitecture de l'ordinateur, 4e édition
- 21Redes De Computadoras
Redes De Computadoras - 22Reti Di Computer
Reti Di Computer - 23Sistemas DistribuidosSistemas Distribuidos
- 24Sistemas Operacionais ModernosSistemas Operacionais Modernos