Date: Wed, 08 Nov 1995 17:20:19 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Andy Tanenbaum: Free UNIX clone (MINIX) available via WWW/FTP Message-ID: <400.815880019@time.cdrom.com>
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I just got this as an announce submission. I'm not going to approve it because, as interesting as it may be, it really has nothing whatsoever to do with FreeBSD. However, I felt that this might be giving Andy short-shrift and might actually be of interest to some of you here, so I'm forwarding it to hackers instead. Jordan ------- Forwarded Message To: comp-unix-bsd-freebsd-announce@NL.net Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce,comp.os.coherent Path: ast From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) Subject: Free UNIX clone (MINIX) available via WWW/FTP Nntp-Posting-Host: kits.cs.vu.nl Sender: news@cs.vu.nl Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 22:45:26 GMT Message-Id: <DHqxvq.K4t.0.-s@cs.vu.nl> Lines: 26 This message formally announces MINIX 1.7.1. MINIX is a UNIX clone that is now available for free via the Internet for educational and research use. It runs in 16-bit mode on the 8088 and 286, and in 32-bit mode on the 386, 486, and Pentium. The complete OS source code is included in the distribution. A book telling how an older version of MINIX works internally is available; a new version covering the current code will be out in 1996. MINIX has been written with the intention that people can understand how it works. This makes it a suitable system for learning about operating system internals. For all the details and hyperlinks you can click on to get MINIX, see: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html For people with FTP access but no Web access, see ftp.cs.vu.nl:pub/minix. There is an active MINIX newsgroup for questions, discussion, new software, etc.: comp.os.minix Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl) ------- End of Forwarded Message
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