[very OT] Tanenbaum interview

From: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Date: Tue Mar 21 2000 - 06:02:40 EST


[de Volkskrant, 2000-03-18]

...
Another thing to be proud of:
ten years ago Tanenbaum invented Minix, a little
operating system good for teaching purposes.
Many followers wanted to add things.
"But the Minix code already was 250 pages, and I
wanted to keep things simple for those poor students.
Then Linus Torvalds designed Linux on the base of
Minix. He is having quite some success with it."
...

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