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Morris Tanenbaum (American, physical chemist / transistor researcher) [1], not to be confused with Andrew Tanenbaum (American-Dutch, CS professor who was responsible for MINIX) [2]. Both had great significance in what we call "computers" today, in their respective fields.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Tanenbaum

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum

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Hah, I read many books by Andrew Tanenbaum. I remember him putting in dry comments like 'It is not known whether CPUs have dreams during their deepest sleep states.'

i loved those comments, felt like a mentor talking to you instead of a person passing on info

Andrew Tanenbaum is in a no way Dutch. States as much in his Wikipedia article. There are plenty of Dutch scientists, including in CS, so no need to gekoloniseren another one.

He's lived and worked in The Netherlands since over 35 years, possibly 40.

Does that make him Dutch?

It's 52 years: https://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/home/cv.pdf, but he's still an American citizen. You be the judge, but it's certainly not unfair to call him American-Dutch.

If he speaks Dutch, and rides a bike, I'd say he passes the duck test.

Is calling any permanent resident who is not a citizen Dutch reasonable?

If he was born there but lived in the US for 50 years, would it be fair to call him a Dutch-American?

Why is everyone just responding with further rhetorical questions in this thread? It is annoying.

"Tanenbaum! You SOB"

[handshake sound]

Sorry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Lamest_edit_wars#Eth...

You're right, this was unnecessary.

Thanks for the clarification, I was wondering if they were related.

Exactly. and deserves a black bar.

Can we please have a black bar for respect and recognising his great contributions?

Black bar?

HN will sometimes render a black bar on the tops of pages when a prominent person has died.

I always assumed that was a rendering error

That would require HN to be modified regularly enough to induce rendering regressions :-)

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