tanenbaum, andrew

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

Andrew Tanenbaum
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Andy Tanenbaum
Tanenbaum, Andrew

   <person> Professor Andrew S. Tanenbaum (1941-) of the {Vrije
   Universiteit, Amsterdam} in The Netherlands.  Tanenbaum is
   famous for his work and books on computer architecture,
   {operating systems} and {networks}.

   He wrote the textbook "Computer Networks", Second Edition,
   Prentice-Hall, 1981, which describes the {International
   Standards Organisation}, {Open Systems Interconnection}
   (ISO-OSI) network model.

   See {Amoeba}, {Mac-1}, {Mic-1}, {Mic-2}, {Micro Assembly
   Language}, {MINIX}, {MicroProgramming Language}, {standard}.

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