Quote of the day
Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Born: March 16, 1944 (age 81)
Bio: Andrew Stuart "Andy" Tanenbaum is an American computer scientist living in the Netherlands. He is best known as the author of Minix, a free Unix-like operating system for teaching purposes, and for his computer science textbooks.
Known for:
- Computer Networks (1981)
- Modern Operating Systems (1992)
- Operating Systems: Design and Implementation (1987)
- Structured Computer Organization (1975)