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-Minux is an operating system written by AndrewTannenbaum for "Operating Systems: Design and Implementation". Linus and AndrewTannenbaum
had a FlameWar over the various design decisions.
+Minux is an operating system written by AndrewTannenbaum for "Operating Systems: Design and Implementation". Linus and AndrewTanenbaum
had a FlameWar over the various design decisions.
-My first introduction to Unix was by reading the book.
+Before [Linux] became popular, Minix was widely used for teaching unix internals at universities, due to its available source code (although not under what we would call a Free license these days), clean implementation, and general "smallness" or lack of bloat (and functionality). It made (makes?) wide use of message passing, so students can trace the chain of functions called to perform a particular task.
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+See also [MinixFS].
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My first introduction to Unix was by reading the book. (PerryLorier)
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+JohnMcPherson and StuartYeates had to use Minix in a unix-related course at CanterburyUniversity as late as 1998, well after Linux was widely used. Fortunately, they got over the experience
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