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"Fight Features. … The only way to make software secure, reliable, and fast is to make it small."
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Andrew S. TanenbaumThe only real argument for monolithic systems was performance, and the — Andrew S. Tanenbaum
"The only real argument for monolithic systems was performance, and there is now enough evidence showing that microkernel systems can be just as fast as monolithic systems."
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Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
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Andrew Stuart Tanenbaum, sometimes referred to by the handle AST, is an American-born Dutch computer scientist and retired professor emeritus of computer science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
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"Many security texts decompose the security of an information system in three components: confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Together, they are often referred to as "CIA". [They] constitute the core security properties that we must protect against attackers and eavesdroppers—such as the (other) CIA."
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"However, as every parent of a small child knows, converting a large object into small fragments is considerably easier than the reverse process."
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"The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from."
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"He" should be read as "he or she" throughout the book."
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"I had never engaged in remote multishrink psychoanalysis on this scale before, so it was a fascinating experience."
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