MINIX (from mini-Unix) is a Unix-like operating system based on a microkernel architecture. Since version 2.0, it has been POSIX compliant. Early versions...
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Riley James Minix (born September 22, 2000) is an American basketball player for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He...
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Minix 3 is a small, Unix-like operating system. It is published under a BSD-3-Clause license and is a successor project to the earlier versions, Minix...
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Tanenbaum–Torvalds debate (category MINIX)
in general. Tanenbaum, the creator of Minix, began the debate in 1992 on the Usenet discussion group comp.os.minix, arguing that microkernels are superior...
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The Minix file system is the native file system of the Minix operating system. It was written from scratch by Andrew S. Tanenbaum in the 1980s and aimed...
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Redox is inspired by prior kernels and operating systems, such as SeL4, MINIX, Plan 9, BSD, and Linux. It is free and open-source software distributed...
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announced this system in another posting to the comp.os.minix newsgroup: Hello everybody out there using minix - I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby...
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calls from Tanenbaum's Minix text. Torvalds began the development of the Linux kernel on Minix and applications written for Minix were also used on Linux...
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systems often have Unix-like names such as AIX, A/UX, HP-UX, IRIX, Linux, Minix, Ultrix, Xenix, and XNU. These patterns do not literally match many system...
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Andrew S. Tanenbaum (category MINIX)
the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He is the author of MINIX, a free Unix-like operating system for teaching purposes, and has written...
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implementations (of varying quality and completeness) exist in GNU Hurd, MINIX 3, some BSD kernels, in MiNT, Haiku and as third-party Microsoft Windows...
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Comp.* hierarchy (redirect from Comp.os.minix)
programming language comp.os.linux.misc Linux operating system comp.os.minix Minix operating system comp.programming Miscellaneous discussion of programming...
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OpenSolaris Illumos Tru64 UNIX UnixWare Other Coherent Domain/OS GNU Hurd LynxOS Minix MOS OSF/1 QNX BlackBerry 10 Research Unix SerenityOS Xenix more......
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Operating Systems: Design and Implementation (category MINIX)
Tanenbaum's MINIX, a free Unix-like operating system designed for teaching purposes. The publisher is Prentice Hall (1987). The source code for MINIX was included...
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Operating Systems: Design and Implementation, in which Tanenbaum describes MINIX, an educational stripped-down version of Unix. In 1990, Torvalds resumed...
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states that the Linux kernel was written using copied source code from Minix and other resources acquired improperly or possibly illegally by Linus Torvalds...
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Alexander was charged with the murder of Catherine Minix, who was found stabbed to death. Minix had previously filed a protective order against Alexander...
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even other Linux systems. In addition, Android 2.2, GNU/Hurd (Debian K16), Minix 3.1.2a, Solaris 10 U3 and Darwin 8.0.1, together with other operating systems...
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one of these two editors to be the vi clone in Minix; Elvis was chosen, and remains the vi clone for Minix today. In 1989, Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz...
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Brown to find similarities between Minix and Linux 0.01 source code, and found no support for the theory that Minix source code had been used to create...
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Tanenbaum, the creator of MINIX, and Torvalds. The Tanenbaum–Torvalds debate started in 1992 on the Usenet group comp.os.minix as a general discussion about...
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shell (/bin/sh) on FreeBSD, NetBSD, DragonFly BSD, MINIX, and in some Linux distributions. MINIX 3.2 used the original ash version, whose test feature...
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11, 2013. "Linux Kernel FAQ". Supports ELF since version 3.2.0 "MinixReleases". Minix Wiki. Archived from the original on 31 May 2012. Retrieved 21 May...
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(except for 32-bit PA-RISC programs which continue to use SOM) QNX Neutrino MINIX ELF has also seen some adoption in non-Unix operating systems, such as:...
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code size, microkernels are often smaller than monolithic kernels. The MINIX 3 microkernel, for example, has only approximately 12,000 lines of code...
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Torvalds (August 26, 1991). "What would you like to see most in minix?". comp.os.minix. Archived from the original on April 30, 2013. Retrieved July 28...
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Sandro 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) 240 lb (109 kg) 1999-05-23 Seton Hall G/F — Minix, Riley 6 ft 7 in (2.01 m) 230 lb (104 kg) 2000-09-22 Morehead State G 3...
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fallocate fdformat fdisk fincore findfs findmnt flock fsck fsck.cramfs fsck.minix fsfreeze fstrim getopt hardlink hexdump hwclock (query and set the hardware...
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and iOS) DragonFly BSD FreeBSD illumos Linux (most distributions) LynxOS MINIX (now MINIX3) MPE/iX NetBSD Nucleus RTOS NuttX OpenBSD OpenSolaris PikeOS...
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principles, and was designed by Rémy Card to overcome certain limitations of the MINIX file system. It was the first implementation that used the virtual file...
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