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minix

 

  1  definition  found 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  MINIX 
 
    /MIN-ix/  A  small  {operating  system}  that  is 
  very  similar  to  {UNIX}.  MINIX  was  written  for  educational 
  purposes  by  Prof.  {Andrew  S.  Tanenbaum}  of  {Vrije 
  Universiteit  Amsterdam}. 
 
  MINIX  has  been  written  from  scratch  and  contains  no  AT&T  code 
  --  neither  in  the  {kernel},  the  {compiler},  the  utilities,  nor 
  the  libraries.  Although  copyrighted  by  Prentice-Hall,  all 
  {sources},  {binaries}  and  {documentation}  can  be  obtained  via 
  {Internet}  for  educational  or  research  purposes. 
 
  Current  versions  as  of  1996-11-15: 
 
  MINIX  2.0  -  {Intel}  {CPU}s  from  {Intel  8088}  to  {Pentium} 
 
  MINIX  1.5  -  {Intel},  {Macintosh}  ({MacMinix}),  {Amiga},  {Atari 
  ST},  {Sun}  {SPARC}. 
 
  {Home  (http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html)}. 
 
  (1997-06-16)