Andrew Tanenbaum
Andrew Tanenbaum · Technology & Engineering
Created the MINIX operating system.
1944, New York City, United States
United States · Netherlands
Andrew Tanenbaum is recognized among Jewish contributors to Technology & Engineering — Created the MINIX operating system.
Andrew Stuart Tanenbaum is an American-Dutch computer scientist who created MINIX, a Unix-like teaching operating system whose source code directly inspired Linus Torvalds to write Linux, and who authored widely used textbooks on operating systems and computer networks. He is Jewish, born into a Jewish family in New York.
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Created the MINIX operating system.
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