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Minix was programmed by the computer scientist Andrew Tanenbaum as a teaching operating system for x86 computer. It is related to the AT&T UNIX, however it does not contain any licence requiring source code of UNIX so that it is free of charge to be used and sold. In January 1987 Minix was made public for the first time and the users discussed about it in newsgroups in the Usenet. Minix 3.1 was downloaded 75.000 times as an ISO image of interested users in the first 2 months after the release.MINIX 3. x can be used for embedded devices also and for further applications where the GPL is too strict. The operating system offers very high reliability. The porting to the ARM7 and PPC architecture are in development. On the porting of the X Window Server is also worked.
Structure information
- MINIX 2.0 for 16bit/32bit systems
- supports multi-threading
System environment
- about 200 console programs
- up to 3 simultaneous user
- can use 16 mbyte RAM on Intel 286 and up to 4 gbyte RAM with 386 CPUs or better
Page created: 2004-04-03 [SB]
Last update: 2008-03-03
Last update: 2008-03-03
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Versions
| Date | Version |
|---|---|
| 1984 | Minix 0.? |
| 1987 | Minix 1.0 |
| 1992 Oct. | Minix 1.5 was installed from 12x 720 kbyte floppy disks for Intel, Macintosh, Amiga, Atari or SPARC computers |
| 1993 April | Minix 1.6.25 |
| 1995 June | Minix 1.7.0 with 32-bit ACK (Amsterdam Compiler Kit) |
| 1996 Feb. | Minix 1.7.2 |
| 1996 Oct. | Minix 2.0.0 for Intel CPUs from 8088 up to Pentium class |
| 1998 Dec. | Minix 2.0.2 |
| 2005 Oct. | Minix 3.1, about 300 programs available |
| 2006 April | MINIX 3.1.2 |
Comments
Moonlight
30 Dec 2007, 17:52
30 Dec 2007, 17:52
i want any program written in minix with the instruction as to what it is for or plz gv any link to minix source codes i want to learn the minix programming
XxX
25 Dec 2007, 23:19
25 Dec 2007, 23:19
please send me data related to structure of minix,algorithms on which MINIX is designed,about its process for threads,IPC(secure phase scheduling) and memory organization
syed noman ali
02 Nov 2007, 10:46
02 Nov 2007, 10:46
i have project about minix so please send me a full information about MIINIX OS......
Sriram
29 Oct 2007, 12:33
29 Oct 2007, 12:33
I am engg. student. I need details about booting process and process management in MINIX.
xxx
08 Oct 2007, 17:07
08 Oct 2007, 17:07
i want the researh information about minix os
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