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From: EURO29@FR29RA.#29.FBRE.FRA.EU
To  : UNIX@WW


If  17 november 1997 is the date of this file then the author didn't do his
homework right.

>MINIX
>
>Mini linux. Mosteley based on Linux.
>Useless.

Now  this  is  the  reason  why I react. This is completly wrong. Minix has
absolutly  nothing  to  do with Linux except that Linux uses the Minix file
system.

Minix was build by Andrew S Tanenbaum at the university of Amsterdam.

Years ago AT&T (who invented UNIX) gave away  tapes  with  Unix System 7 to
universities. This version ran on  Digital PDP11 systems. They started with
it  to enhance it and to educate students about OSses. Unix became populair
because  of  this.  So  populair  that  AT&T  started to see a business and
stopped  supplying  these  tapes.  AT&T  started  with  Version  V (5). The
university of Berkely California started from System 7 to create BSD.

The  use  as  teaching tool was gone. Thats why Andrew Tanenbaum started to
make  its own UNIX clone named MINIX. It ran on 8088 computers (yes on PC's
and  on  floppies!)  and later also used the harddisk. In those days it was
the  only UNIX where you could play with. It had some limitations. Programs
had to fit into 64k code space and 64k data space. Bigger programs were not
possible. But it was nice to learn the OS concepts from and to play with. I
still have my copy of it.

Linux  was  born much later as an attempt to write a kernel. The filesystem
was  taken  over  from  Minix. There is also a 386 version of MINIX without
limitations,  but  the  appearence of the free Linux has almost stopped all
new  development  on  MINIX.  MINIX is still used for its original goal, as
teaching-tool  for  universities. It is therefore not useless but perfectly
suitable  for  its  goal.  In  any case it is not a mini-Linux, it can't be
because it existed long before Linux did. It is most certainly not based on
Linux, but parts Linux might be based on MINIX instead.

For  the  rest  you can feed the "hOU tO hACK a UNiX sYSTEM" series to your
recycle  bin.  I  hope  my contribution gave this crap upload at least some
purpose...

Kind regards