Minix

Minix
Type:	Time-sharing
Creator:	Andy Tanenbaum
Multitasking:	Multitasking with paging/swap
Architecture:	Originally 8086 was cross-platform.
Date Released:	1987

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 minix3.org.

Platforms

In the past 1.5x releases Minix supported:

• Amiga
• Atari ST
• Sparc
• Macintosh
• 8086
• 80386 (With Bruce Evans patches)

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 here. There is also the official minix archive here.

I'm trying to track down the Bruce Evans Minix-386 stuff.