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MINIX was special because the book was used in many universities to teach operating system principles. MINIX also one of the few affordable Unix-like operating
by phicoh 7y ago
MINIX was special because the book was used in many universities to teach operating system principles.
MINIX also one of the few affordable Unix-like operating systems you could run on your own PC, and it came with full source (except for the compiler)
Linus was running MINIX when he created Linux.
And finally there the famous discussion by Linus and Andy Tanenbaum (the creator of MINIX) about how operating systems should be structured.
- varjag 7y agoMinix also runs Intel Management Engine in ring -3 on every CPU where it is enabled. That makes it one of the most deployed OS in the world.
- justincormack 7y agoAlthough this is Minix3 AFAIK which is quite different from the original Minix, with more BSD derived code, and designed for production not teaching.