[TUHS] Re: ACM Software System Award to Andrew S. Tanenbaum for MINIX

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On Tuesday, June 18th, 2024 at 8:41 AM, Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu> wrote:

> This announcement just arrived on the ACM Bulletins list:
> 
> > > ...
> > > Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Vrije Universiteit, receives the ACM Software
> > > System Award (http://awards.acm.org/software-system) for MINIX, which
> > > influenced the teaching of Operating Systems principles to multiple
> > > generations of students and contributed to the design of widely used
> > > operating systems, including Linux.
> > > ...
> 
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I have Andy Tanenbaum to thank in part for my interest in turning up UNIX 4.0 information due to the quote:

"Whatever happened to System IV is one of the great unsolved mysteries of computer science."

From Modern Operating Systems.  I took this as an impudent challenge and well here I am.

- Matt G.