Why was Tanenbaum wrong in the Tanenbaum-Torvalds debates?
- by Robz
I was recently assigned reading from the Tanenbaum-Torvalds debates in my OS class. In the debates, Tanenbaum makes some predictions:
Microkernels are the future
x86 will die out and RISC architectures will dominate the market
(5 years from then) everyone will be running a free GNU OS
I was a one year old when the debates happened, so I lack…