[ih] Andrew Tanenbaum honored for pioneering MINIX

[Tony Patti]

https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/25/tanenbaum_minix_award/

 

Published yesterday June 25, 2024 in The Register, quoting three paragraphs:

 

Andy Tanenbaum, creator of MINIX, has been recognized for his code, seminal
textbooks, 

and wider educational influence over much of the modern FOSS world.

 

Dr Andrew S Tanenbaum - often known as "ast" for short - has been honored in
the ACM Technical Awards 2023 

with the Association for Computing Machinery's Software System prize. The
award is for his creation of the MINIX operating system. 

It's not as famous as the offspring it directly inspired - the Linux kernel.
As well as that, though, MINIX 3 is a true FOSS microkernel OS, 

and as it's the software that powers the system management controller
embedded in most modern Intel processors, it's exceptionally widely used.

 

Although you may never have seen MINIX yourself, there's a very high
probability that you've used computers running it. 

Whatever OS you prefer, even if you're devoted to Windows or macOS, your
computer may be running MINIX 3 right now 

because Intel used it as the operating system of its chips' integrated
Management Engine. Most Intel-based computers have MINIX 3 inside.

 

Tony Patti

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