Minix - Revision history

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Proper cat, +links

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‎Minix 1.5 =

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Minor spellfixes etc.

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‎Platforms

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‎Resources

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lame initial version

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{{Infobox OS
| name = Minix
| creator = Andy Tanenbaum
| year introduced = 1987
| architecture = Originally [[8086]] was cross-platform.
| type = Time-sharing
| multitasking = Multitasking with paging/swap
}}

Minix is a small microkernel based OS for teaching OS concepts in colleges. Over it's life it has been ported to various CPU types, and platforms, but as time has gone on it's always come back to the intel 8086 platform.

The current version is 3, which can be found at the official Minix web site [http://www.minix3.org/ minix3.org].

== Platforms ==
In the past 1.5x releases Minix supported:

*Amiga
*Atari ST
*Sparc
*Macintosh
*8086
*80386

== Resources ==
All kinds of ancient Minix can be found [http://oldlinux.org/Linux.old/Minix/ here].

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-Minix is a small microkernel based OS for teaching OS concepts in colleges.  Over its life it has been ported to various CPU types and platforms, but as time has gone on it's always come back to the Intel 8086 platform.
+Minix is a small [[microkernel]] based [[operating system]] for teaching OS concepts in colleges.  Over its life it has been ported to various CPU types and platforms, but as time has gone on it's always come back to the [[Intel 8086]] platform.
 The current version is 3, which can be found at the official Minix web site [http://www.minix3.org/ minix3.org].
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 === Minix 1.5 ===
 In the past 1.5x releases Minix supported:
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 == root password ==
-The root password is burried in the book but for my sake...
 *ast Wachtwoord
 *root Geheim
 == Resources ==
 All kinds of ancient Minix can be found [http://oldlinux.org/Linux.old/Minix/ here].
 There is also the official Minix archive [http://www.minix3.org/previous-versions/ here].
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 I'm trying to track down the Bruce Evans Minix-386 stuff.
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 == Platforms ==
-=== Minix 1.5 ====
+=== Minix 1.5 ===
 In the past 1.5x releases Minix supported:

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-Minix is a small microkernel based OS for teaching OS concepts in colleges.  Over it's life it has been ported to various CPU types, and platforms, but as time has gone on it's always come back to the intel 8086 platform.
+Minix is a small microkernel based OS for teaching OS concepts in colleges.  Over its life it has been ported to various CPU types and platforms, but as time has gone on it's always come back to the Intel 8086 platform.
 The current version is 3, which can be found at the official Minix web site [http://www.minix3.org/ minix3.org].
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 *80386 (With Bruce Evans patches)
-This is the release that interests me most, as it not only supported the most platforms, it was for a while the only cheap way to get a *NIX like OS onto your PC before the rise of Linux, and of course Linux was originaly built from Minix, and used it's filesystem and device nodes..
+This is the release that interests me most, as it not only supported the most platforms, it was for a while the only cheap way to get a *NIX like OS onto your PC before the rise of Linux, and of course Linux was originaly built from Minix, and used its filesystem and device nodes..
 == root password ==
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 == Resources ==
 All kinds of ancient Minix can be found [http://oldlinux.org/Linux.old/Minix/ here].
-There is also the official minix archive [http://www.minix3.org/previous-versions/ here].
+There is also the official Minix archive [http://www.minix3.org/previous-versions/ here].
 I'm trying to track down the Bruce Evans Minix-386 stuff.
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 == Platforms ==
 In the past 1.5x releases Minix supported:
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 *Sparc
 *[[Mac Minix 1.5.10.7|Macintosh]]
-*8086
+*8086 See [[Installing Minix 1.5 for the 8086]] for more information.
 *80386 (With Bruce Evans patches)
 == root password ==

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 *Atari ST
 *Sparc
-*Macintosh
+*[[Mac Minix 1.5.10.7|Macintosh]]
 *8086
 *80386