Morris Tanenbaum, Inventor of the Silicon Microchip, Dies at 94

Re:Morris Tanenbaum, Inventor of the Silicon Microchip, Dies... by solar_warehouse on Friday May 12, 2023 @02:53PM (#35920566)

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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Re:Morris Tanenbaum, Inventor of the Silicon Microchip, Dies... by FeistySkink on Friday May 12, 2023 @03:26PM (#35921044)

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.

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Re:Morris Tanenbaum, Inventor of the Silicon Microchip, Dies... by tgv on Friday May 12, 2023 @03:28PM (#35921081)

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

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Re:Morris Tanenbaum, Inventor of the Silicon Microchip, Dies... by FeistySkink on Friday May 12, 2023 @03:33PM (#35921147)

Does that make him Dutch?

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Re:Morris Tanenbaum, Inventor of the Silicon Microchip, Dies... by tgv on Friday May 12, 2023 @03:40PM (#35921252)

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.

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Re:Morris Tanenbaum, Inventor of the Silicon Microchip, Dies... by helloooooooo on Friday May 12, 2023 @03:46PM (#35921337)

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

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Re:Morris Tanenbaum, Inventor of the Silicon Microchip, Dies... by 13of40 on Friday May 12, 2023 @04:25PM (#35921882)

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

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Re:Morris Tanenbaum, Inventor of the Silicon Microchip, Dies... by bee_rider on Friday May 12, 2023 @06:35PM (#35923380)

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

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Re:Morris Tanenbaum, Inventor of the Silicon Microchip, Dies... by 29athrowaway on Friday May 12, 2023 @03:56PM (#35921476)

"Tanenbaum! You SOB"

[handshake sound]

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Re:Morris Tanenbaum, Inventor of the Silicon Microchip, Dies... by oefnak on Saturday May 13, 2023 @06:36AM (#35927131)

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

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Re:Morris Tanenbaum, Inventor of the Silicon Microchip, Dies... by marcodiego on Friday May 12, 2023 @04:56PM (#35922288)

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

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Re:Morris Tanenbaum, Inventor of the Silicon Microchip, Dies... by FeistySkink on Friday May 12, 2023 @05:14PM (#35922508)

You're right, this was unnecessary.

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Re:Morris Tanenbaum, Inventor of the Silicon Microchip, Dies... by rvz on Friday May 12, 2023 @02:58PM (#35920632)

Exactly. and deserves a black bar.

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

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Re:Morris Tanenbaum, Inventor of the Silicon Microchip, Dies... by reasonabl_human on Friday May 12, 2023 @02:59PM (#35920648)

Black bar?

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Re:Morris Tanenbaum, Inventor of the Silicon Microchip, Dies... by woodruffw on Friday May 12, 2023 @03:00PM (#35920676)

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

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Re:Morris Tanenbaum, Inventor of the Silicon Microchip, Dies... by mjburgess on Friday May 12, 2023 @03:08PM (#35920780)

I always assumed that was a rendering error

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Re:Morris Tanenbaum, Inventor of the Silicon Microchip, Dies... by woodruffw on Friday May 12, 2023 @03:13PM (#35920849)

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

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Re:Morris Tanenbaum, Inventor of the Silicon Microchip, Dies... by jakjak123 on Friday May 12, 2023 @05:42PM (#35922833)

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.'

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Re:Morris Tanenbaum, Inventor of the Silicon Microchip, Dies... by kkarakk on Friday May 12, 2023 @06:47PM (#35923502)

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

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Re:Morris Tanenbaum, Inventor of the Silicon Microchip, Dies... by shever73 on Friday May 12, 2023 @06:30PM (#35923335)

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

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