Dr. Jochen Liedtke (1953-2001), L4 microkernel developer

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Dr. Jochen Liedtke was born in 1953 and studied Mathematics. His thesis was on the ELAN programming language. He had a very active interest in operating systems and he developed EUMEL (Extendable multiUser Microprocessor ELan system), a run-time system for ELAN. He is better known as the designer and developer of the L4 second-generation microkernel. Liedtke was very attracted to microkernels and while in Germany he had developed another microkernel: L3. He unveiled the 12-Kbyte fast L4 microkernel after 1996 while working at IBM in New York. Prof. Jochen Liedtke died unexpectedly on 10 June 2001, at the age of 48.

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