Andrew S. Tanenbaum quotes
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“With current technology it is possible to put four floppy disk drives in a personal computer. It is just that doing so would be pointless.”
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“A refund for defective software might be nice, except it would bankrupt the entire software industry in the first year.”
-- Andrew S. TanenbaumSource : "Computer Networks". Book by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 1981.
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“UNIX does not allow path names to be prefixed by a drive name or number; that would be precisely the kind of device dependence that operating systems ought to eliminate.”
-- Andrew S. TanenbaumSource : "Modern Operating Systems". Book by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 1992.
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“A lot of other people wanted a free production UNIX with lots of bells and whistles and wanted to convert MINIX into that. I was dragged along in the maelstrom for a while, but when Linux came along, I was actually relieved that I could go back to professoring.”
-- Andrew S. TanenbaumSource : "Clearing Up Some Misconceptions". "Ken Brown's Motivation, Release 1.2", www.cs.vu.nl. May 21, 2004.
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“The only real argument for monolithic systems was performance, and there is now enough evidence showing that microkernel systems can be just as fast as monolithic systems.”
-- Andrew S. TanenbaumSource : "The "Linux is Obsolete" Debate". In a Usenet message, January 29, 1992.
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“But in all honesty, I would suggest that people who want a modern "free" OS look around for a microkernel-based, portable OS, like maybe GNU or something like that.”
-- Andrew S. TanenbaumSource : Usenet message, January 29, 1992.
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“A multithreaded file system is only a performance hack.”
-- Andrew S. TanenbaumSource : Usenet message to Linus Torvalds, January 30, 1992.
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“Writing a portable OS is not much harder than a nonportable one, and all systems should be written with portability in mind these days.”
-- Andrew S. TanenbaumSource : Usenet message, February 03, 1992.
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“While most people can talk rationally about kernel design and portability, the issue of free-ness is 100% emotional.”
-- Andrew S. TanenbaumSource : Usenet message, February 03, 1992.
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“XML combines the efficiency of text files with the readability of binary files”
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“Unfortunately, the current generation of mail programs do not have checkers to see if the sender knows what he is talking about.”
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“If anyone had realized that within 10 years this tiny system that was picked up almost by accident was going to be controlling 50 million computers, considerably more thought might have gone into it.”
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“I had never engaged in remote multishrink psychoanalysis on this scale before, so it was a fascinating experience.”
-- Andrew S. TanenbaumSource : "Ken Brown's Motivation, Release 1.2" by Andy Tanenbaum, www.cs.vu.nl. May 21, 2004.
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“Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway.”
-- Andrew S. TanenbaumSource : "Computer Networks". Book by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 1981.
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“However, as every parent of a small child knows, converting a large object into small fragments is considerably easier than the reverse process.”
-- Andrew S. TanenbaumSource : "Computer Networks". Book by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 1981.
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“Fight Features. … The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small.”
-- Andrew S. TanenbaumSource : "Some Notes on the 'Who Wrote Linux' Kerfuffle, Release 1.5". www.cs.vu.nl. May 20, 2004.
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“Linux is a leprosy; … This statement is not grammatically or factually correct.”
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“I really am not angry with Linus. Honest. He's not angry with me either.”
-- Andrew S. TanenbaumSource : "Some Notes on the 'Who wrote Linux' Kerfuffle, Release 1.5". www.informit.com. Jun 7, 2004.
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“I can type faster than I can point. And my mother told me that pointing is impolite.”
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“A couple of years ago this guy called Ken Brown wrote a book saying that Linus stole Linux from me It later came out that Microsoft had paid him to do this”
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“Microkernels are not a pipe dream. They represent proven technology.”
-- Andrew S. TanenbaumSource : Usenet message, February 05, 1992.
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