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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Andy did more than I thought :-)
Message-ID: <1983@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 29 Jan 89 22:20:16 GMT
References: <410@ubc-bdcvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <410@ubc-bdcvax.UUCP> holm@ubc-bdcvax.UUCP (Terrence W. Holm) writes:
>  "To meet this need Andrew Tanenbaum - principle 
>  architect of the PDP-11, 68000 and IBM PC operating
>  systems - now offers a timely solution ... "
If P-H can't get things straight, how can you expect third parties to?

I haven't seen the ad, and had nothing to do with it, but my best guess is
that it is based on the following information, which is sort of relevant.
I have, in fact, designed operating systems for all those machines.  How
principal they are is another story.  For the PDP-11 I designed and implemented
a system called TSS-11, an early timesharing system.  For the 68000, I was
one of the designers of Amoeba (see, for example, the Oct. 1988 ACM Operating
System Review), and MINIX for the PC.  Thus there is a grain of truth in that,
however badly they mangled it.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)