Proper noun
Minix
(computing) A Unix-like operating system for teaching the principles of operating systems.
A lot of other people wanted a free production UNIX with lots of bells and whistles and wanted to convert MINIX into that. I was dragged along in the maelstrom for a while, but when Linux came along, I was actually relieved that I could go back to professoring. Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse for some of the brain-damages of Minix. Linus Torvalds
Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and wrote their own device drivers? [...] I can (well, almost) hear you asking yourselves "why?". Hurd will be out in a year (or two, or next month, who knows), and I've already got minix. Linus Torvalds
History The early development of the Linux kernel was made as a cross-development under the Minix operating system. Source: Internet
The ext file system solved the two major problems in the Minix file system (maximum partition size and filename length limitation to 14 characters), and allowed 2 gigabytes of data and filenames of up to 255 characters. Source: Internet
Early versions of MINIX were created by Andrew S. Tanenbaum for educational purposes. Source: Internet