Be thankful you are not my student. You would not get a high grade for such a design :-) [... ] Writing a new OS only for the 386 in 1991 gets you your second "F" for this term. (Andrew S. Tanenbaum)

Be thankful you are not my student. You would not get a high grade for such a design :-) [... ] Writing a new OS only for the 386 in 1991 gets you your second "F" for this term.

Andrew S. Tanenbaum

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