Re: Minix and Tanenbaum
By: physalis17 to All on Wed Nov 19 2014 04:19 pm
ph> I started looking up the Minix OS (the precursor to Linux) and found a
ph> great lecture video on the history of Minix by its creator Andrew S.
ph> Tanenbaum. Really fascinating stuff because if AT&T hadn't been so greedy
ph> and hush hush about the UNIX source code, the world of computing would be
ph> a totally different place.
Minix was a great learning tool -- having all of the source code available and
having it be small enough to get your head around was a great learning
experience.
I have a Minix VM image that I downloaded off the net; I should get my old web
server running. I had a public-facing Minix WWW server running my own pages and
a mirror of http://minix1.hampshire.edu.
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