[ih] Andrew Tanenbaum honored for pioneering MINIX

[Brian E Carpenter]

About 30 years ago, Andy gave a memorable seminar at CERN, in which
he said that he wasn't sure whether the future would be watching TV
on your computer, or TV sets running Unix.

All he missed was that you'd actually be doing both, but on a
telephone connected to the Internet.

Regards
    Brian Carpenter

On 27-Jun-24 04:03, Tony Patti via Internet-history wrote:
> https://www.theregister.com/2024/06/25/tanenbaum_minix_award/
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> Published yesterday June 25, 2024 in The Register, quoting three paragraphs:
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> Andy Tanenbaum, creator of MINIX, has been recognized for his code, seminal
> textbooks,
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> and wider educational influence over much of the modern FOSS world.
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> Dr Andrew S Tanenbaum - often known as "ast" for short - has been honored in
> the ACM Technical Awards 2023
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> with the Association for Computing Machinery's Software System prize. The
> award is for his creation of the MINIX operating system.
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> 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,
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> and as it's the software that powers the system management controller
> embedded in most modern Intel processors, it's exceptionally widely used.
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> Although you may never have seen MINIX yourself, there's a very high
> probability that you've used computers running it.
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> Whatever OS you prefer, even if you're devoted to Windows or macOS, your
> computer may be running MINIX 3 right now
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> because Intel used it as the operating system of its chips' integrated
> Management Engine. Most Intel-based computers have MINIX 3 inside.
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> Tony Patti
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