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"Oh Tanenbaum, oh Tanenbaum...": Technical Foundations of Xmas 4.0 Research
Andrew Tanenbaum and his textbooks -- e.g. on Operating Systems, Computer
Networks, Structured Computer Organization and Distributed Systems, to name but
a few -- have had a tremendous impact on generations of computer science
students (and teachers at the same time). Given this, it is striking to observe
that this comprehensive body of work apparently does not provide a single line
on a research topic that seems to be intimately related with his name (at least
in German), i.e. Xmas Research (XR). Hence, the goal of this paper is to fill
this gap and provide insight into a number of paradigmatic XR research
questions, for instance: Can we today still count on Santa Claus? Or at least
on Xmas trees? And does this depend on basic tree structures, or can we rather
find solutions on the level of programming languages? By addressing such basic
open issues, we aim at providing a solid technical foundation for future steps
towards the imminent evolution of Xmas 4.0.Comment: 5 pages, 12 figure