Minix
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Minix
(computing) A Unix-like operating system for teaching the principles of operating systems.
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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.
Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse for some of the brain-damages of Minix.
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.
History The early development of the Linux kernel was made as a cross-development under the Minix operating system.
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.
Early versions of MINIX were created by Andrew S. Tanenbaum for educational purposes.