Dr. Andrew S Tanenbaum has been honored with the ACM Technical Awards 2023 for his creation of the MINIX operating system, a true FOSS microkernel OS widely used in modern Intel processors.
Tanenbaum's series of textbooks on OS design, including Operating Systems Design and Implementation, are well known among OS developers for providing practical examples like MINIX, inspiring early internet hackers.
The original MINIX was used by many hackers who ported it to different architectures and added features, but due to copyright restrictions, users couldn't distribute modified versions, a factor that influenced Linus Torvalds to create the Linux kernel.
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