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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: MINIX guys are good programmers
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Date: 17 Mar 91 00:35:03 GMT
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For those of you who didn't hear the news, the ACM programming contest
(worldwide version) was won by Stanford.  Very close behind, in second
place, was the team from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, where I
am located.  The team consisted of 4 students who have graduated or will
soon graduate from here.  Two of them, Raymond Michiels and Steven Reiz
are the fellows who did the Amiga port of MINIX.  This exercise happened
when they were sophomores in one of my classes and were bored with the
programming exercies I assigned.  They wanted something harder, so I said:
"Port MINIX to something."  Little did I realize that they would take me
seriously.  A third member of the team is Philip Homburg, who is writing
a TCP/IP package for MINIX.  The fourth member is now a grad student in
Limburg, mostly famous for its Limburger cheese of folklore fame.

This team also won the European championship, before going on to the main
event.

Three cheers for them all!    001,  010,  011


Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)