DIY CPU demo'd running Minix
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| Bill Buzbee offered the first public demonstration of the Minix OS -- a
| cousin of Linux -- running on his homebrew minicomputer, today at the Vintage
| Computer Festival in Mountain View, Calif. Magic-1, built with 74-series TTL
| ICs using wire-wrap construction, implements a homebrew, 8086-like ISA.
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http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5804062141.html
Related:
Interview with Dr Andrew S Tanenbaum
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| Andrew S Tanenbaum: A couple of years ago this guy called Ken Brown
| wrote a book saying that Linus stole Linux from me, from Minix,
| and therefore the intellectual property rights are unclear and
| therefore companies shouldn't use Linux because I might sue them.
|
| It later came out that Microsoft had paid him to do this --
| and I defended Linus. I wrote on my Web site saying that this
| guy Brown came through, visited me and I gave him the
| [correct] story.
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http://www.builderau.com.au/strategy/architecture/soa/Interview_with_Dr_Andrew_S_Tanenbaum/0,339028264,339273224,00.htm
http://tinyurl.com/3c78xz
Debian GNU/Minix
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| Finally someone has seen the light and started a project that I called for in
| a previous article. This melding of the Minix kernel with the GNU userland is
| called Preventa, and seems to poke fun at the name Nexenta, a similar project
| using the Solaris kernel, all in good fun I’m sure, considering that the
| project leader’s blog is called “La Salle Debain” (a play on “Debian” and the
| French for “bathroom”).
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http://mauroandres.wordpress.com/2007/10/25/debian-gnuminix/
Minix 3.1.3
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| This isn't Ubuntu Linux, or even Linux at all, and it shows. That's
| not necessarily a bad thing, but you need to know what you're
| getting into.
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http://www.techiemoe.com/tech/minix313.htm
Release Notes of MINIX 3.1.3 - Developer's Interim Release
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| MINIX 3.1.3 was released friday, april 13th 2007. It is not a full-quality,
| stable release but a work-in-progress interim release.
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http://www.minix3.org/download/releasenotes-3.1.3.html
Review of Minix 3.1.2a IDE build2
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| There has been some controversy regarding the intertwined histories
| of Linux and Minix. It's true that Linus Torvalds used Minix and the
| first versions of Linux required a Minix system to boot from.
|
| [...]
|
| The overall feel of Minix is super lightweight and fast. It reminds
| me of older Unix systems with the behaviour of some of the
| system tools.
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http://www.openaddict.com/review_of_minix_3.1.2a_ide_build2.html
MINIX: what is it, and why is it still relevant?
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| MINIX, as originated by Andy Tanenbaum, is an operating system that
| has its roots and heart in academia as a tool that teaches you how
| kernels really should work. Recently, however, with the advent of
| version three of this rock solid OS, the focus is on making a
| production ripe embedded distribution.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/minix
Comparing Linux and Minix
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| The UnixBench results (raw results: Minix, Linux) paint a rather
| different picture. These results are summarized in the plot to the
| left; the upper bar for each test represents Linux. The measured
| system call overhead for Minix is a full ten times higher than
| the value for Linux. The file copy tests ran between two and ten
| times faster on Linux. Pipe throughput differed by a factor of
| seven; Minix was 140 times slower at process creation. The
| difference in shell script execution performance, however, was
| 1.4 - in Minix's favor. One assumes that the rather simple shell
| provided by Minix is, at least, faster than bash.
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http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/220255/2031d5ff96d848d5/
Tanenbaum outlines his vision for a grandma-proof OS
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| Software today is blighted by being too bloated, says Andrew Tanenbaum
|
| [...]
|
| "Maybe the direction Linux could go would be [as] the system that is
| ultra reliable, that works all the time and has not got all the
| problems that you get in Windows," he suggested.
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;1942598204;fp;4;fpid;1968336438
Andrew Tanenbaum: Operating systems' Mr Reliable
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| Almost 20 years on, what would you say has been MINIX's
| contribution to society?
|
| Well, it has educated hundreds of thousands of students worldwide
| in operating system design. It also led to Linux. I doubt that
| Linus would have written Linux if he hadn't had the MINIX source
| code to study carefully. I think that it will yet show that the
| only way to make a system truly reliable is to make it small
| and modular.
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id%3b925218285%3bfp%3b16%3bfpid%3b1
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