On Thursday 16 February 2006 21:09, Zane Gilmore wrote: > Wasn't Andrew Tanenbaum one of Linus's operating system theory > professors? I thought that the 'open and frank exchanges' took place in a Usenet newsgroup between a prof. and a student, as opposed to a prof and _his_ student.
> I seem to remember him making comments about not giving Linus > "full marks" for Linux because he used a monolithic kernel structure. Yes, but iirc, Andrew Tanenbaum wrote to the newsgroup that he wouldn't have given Linus the marks _if_ he was Linus's prof. imho Old Father Time has given Linus and Andrew appropriate marks. > It was around the time that that guy was tring to claim that Linus could > not possibly have written Linux. > > Jim Cheetham wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 02:06:30PM +1300, Carl Cerecke wrote: > >>Andrew Tanenbaum is a Big Name in the research field of Operating > >> Systems. > > > > But not necessarily in the field of Linux :-) > > > > -jim -- CS
