Quotes from Andrew S. Tanenbaum

I can type faster than I can point. And my mother told me that pointing is impolite.

But in all honesty, I would suggest that people who want a modern "free" OS look around for a microkernel-based, portable OS, like maybe GNU or something like that.

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from.

With current technology it is possible to put four floppy disk drives in a personal computer. It is just that doing so would be pointless.

Microkernels are not a pipe dream. They represent proven technology.

The only real argument for monolithic systems was performance, and there is now enough evidence showing that microkernel systems can be just as fast as monolithic systems.

While most people can talk rationally about kernel design and portability, the issue of free-ness is 100% emotional.