http://simonwillison.net/2017-11-07T11:50:36+00:00Simon Willison2017-11-07T11:50:36+00:002017-11-07T11:50:36+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2017/Nov/7/andrew-s-tanenbaum/#atom-tag

<blockquote cite="http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/intel/"><p>The only thing that would have been nice is that after the project had been finished and the chip deployed, that someone from Intel would have told me, just as a courtesy, that MINIX 3 was now probably the most widely used operating system in the world on x86 computers. That certainly wasn't required in any way, but I think it would have been polite to give me a heads up, that's all.</p></blockquote> <p class="cite">&mdash; <a href="http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/intel/">Andrew S. Tanenbaum</a></p> <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/intel">intel</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/open-source">open-source</a></p>

2007-11-24T22:47:53+00:002007-11-24T22:47:53+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2007/Nov/24/little/#atom-tag

<p><strong><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119586754115002717.html?mod=home_we_banner_left">A Little Laptop With Big Ambitions</a></strong></p> I hadn’t realised how much competition OLPC faced from Microsoft and Intel’s Classmate. It would be amazing to see a generation grow up understanding that computers are open tools that they can control themselves rather than closed black boxes. <p>Tags: <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/intel">intel</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/microsoft">microsoft</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/olpc">olpc</a>, <a href="https://simonwillison.net/tags/open-source">open-source</a></p>