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    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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    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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  • Riley Minix is an American college basketball player for the Morehead State Eagles of the Ohio Valley Conference. Prior to Morehead State, Minix had an...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    Redox is inspired by prior kernels and operating systems, such as SeL4, MINIX, Plan 9, and BSD. It is free and open-source software distributed under...
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  • 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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  • 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'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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    Applix 1616 (section Minix)
    multitasking multiuser operating system that was resident in ROM. A version of Minix was also ported to the 1616, as was the MGR Window System. Andrew Morton...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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    1991 he purchased an Intel 80386-based IBM PC clone before receiving his MINIX copy, which in turn enabled him to begin work on Linux. His academic career...
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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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    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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  • 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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    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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    Benedict Torvalds (5 October 1991). "Free minix-like kernel sources for 386-AT". Newsgroup: comp.os.minix. Archived from the original on 2 March 2013...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • binaries using wine) another script starting with a shebang On Linux and Minix, an interpreter can also be a script. A chain of shebangs and wrappers yields...
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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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