I want to like Minix. I had a copy of Design and Implementation and was going to download Minix when I heard of this new Linux thing, filled a bunch of floppies

I want to like Minix. I had a copy of Design and Implementation and was going to download Minix when I heard of this new Linux thing, filled a bunch of floppies with an early Linux distro and never looked back. One of AST's arguments against monolithic was that it would be too hard to port to other systems. Just checked Minix 3 requirements - x86 only, not even x86-64. No ARM. Hard to see how it has progressed from being an academic thing.