Andrew Tanenbaum became award winner ACM Software System Award, awarded annually by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the most respected international organization in the field of computer systems. The prize was awarded for the creation of an operating system MINIXwhich was used to teach several generations of students the principles of operating system development and contributed to the development of widely used operating systems, including Linux.
MINIX OS is built on a microkernel architecture: the code running at the kernel level is only a few thousand lines, and the rest runs at the user level. The basic Minix software environment includes a large number of utilities and libraries typical for BSD systems, ported from NetBSD. Additionally, the repository contains about 700 packages with a variety of applications. MINIX Sources spread under a BSD-like license, which makes the system more attractive to those companies that find the terms of the GPL unacceptable. Among other things, MINIX is used in the Intel Management Engine firmware, which ships in all modern PCs and laptops with Intel processors, making MINIX the most widely used OS in the world.
The ACM Software System Award is presented annually to recognize the development of software systems that have had a defining impact on the industry, introducing new concepts or opening up new areas of commercial application. The amount of the award is 35 thousand US dollars. In past years, ACM awards have been awarded to the GCC and LLVM projects, and their founders Richard Stallman and Chris Latner. The award also recognized such projects and technologies as UNIX, Java, Apache, Mosaic, WWW, Smalltalk, PostScript, TeX, Tcl/Tk, RPC, Make, DNS, AFS, Eiffel, VMware, Wireshark, Jupyter Notebooks, Berkeley DB, seL4, and Eclipse.
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