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| | Minix - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Minix version 1.5 was also ported to the Motorola 68000 CPU, which allowed compatibility with such popular computer platforms as Atari ST, Amiga, Apple Macintosh. | | | This prevented the use of Minix as the basis for a freely distributed software system, which led volunteer software developers to contribute to operating systems such as Linux and FreeBSD instead. | | | Tanenbaum originally developed Minix for compatibility with the IBM PC and IBM PC/AT microcomputers available at the time. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minix
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| | MINIX Definition |
| | MINIX was written for educational purposes by Professor Andrew S. Tanenbaum of Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, who had been using UNIX in classes he taught about the internal workings of computer operating systems. | | | MINIX 2.0 requires a computer with an 8088, 286, 386, 486 or Pentium processor. | | | In addition to MINIX, Tanenbaum is also famous for his books on computer architecture, operating systems and networks and as the developer of Amoeba operating system (which turns a collection of workstations or single-board computers into a transparent distributed system). |
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http://www.bellevuelinux.org/minix.html
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| | Appendix A - The Tanenbaum-Torvalds Debate |
| | MINIX may well be designed as a microkernel system, but in the end you still end up with a large monolithic chunk of binary data that gets loaded in as "the OS". | | | MINIX was designed to be reasonably portable, and has been ported from the Intel line to the 680x0 (Atari, Amiga, Macintosh), SPARC, and NS32016. | | | As he is interested in the educational value of Minix, I understand his argument, that he wants to keep the code simple, and don't want to overload it with features. |
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http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/appa.html
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| | Trusted MINIX: A Worked Example |
| | MINIX [2] is a multi-user, multi-tasking operating system designed to be compatible with UNIX (Version 7) from the user's perspective, but with a more modular internal structure, and with widely available, published source code. | | | Work is already underway to use Trusted MINIX as the basis for three follow-on efforts: a B-level worked example; integration into a networked/distributed computing environment; and as a baseline for a trusted system portability study. | | | Although the computer system will generally be used by only a single user at a time, MINIX was designed for multi-user, multi-tasking operation. |
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http://www.escom.com/papers/tminix.html
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| | MINIX 3.0 Released - OSNews.com |
| | MINIX 1 and 2 were intended as teaching tools; MINIX 3 adds the new goal of being usable as a serious system on resource-limited and embedded computers and for applications requiring high reliability." Read on for more information. | | | This crucial difference between MINIX and Linux led to one of the most famous flamewars in computer history, between Torvalds and Tanenbaum, held in comp.os.minix. | | | Over 300 UNIX programs are available for MINIX 3. |
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http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=12381
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| | Porting the Minix Operating System to the Leopard-1 Workstation |
| | The process of porting Minix to the Leopard-1 was greatly assisted by use of the GNX cross-compiler [4], an in-system-emulator (ISE) [5] and a logic analyser [6]. | | | Minix originally ran on the IBM PC, but has been ported to a number of other computers including the Amiga, Macintosh, and several NS32000 series based machines. | | | However, once Minix was ported to the Leopard-1, the user could use a file transfer program to download the application program and then execute that program from the relatively comfortable environment of Minix. |
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http://www.base.com/gordoni/minix-port.html
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| | Minix for the HP200LX |
| | MINIX can be run on the HP200LX palmtop using the dosminix "file as disk" file system. | | | The first one is the original file, with each one after a modification of the preceding one, as described. | | | This will create a 64k file called lxutil.mnx which is a small dosminix file system. |
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http://minix.technoir.org
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| | Minix Information Sheet (Last Changed: 14 June 1995) |
| | Minix will NOT run on 68020 and larger Amiga systems. | | | MINIX DEMONSTRATION DISKS MINIX demonstration disks for the PC line, the Atari, the Macintosh and the SparcStation (but for technical reasons, not the Amiga) are available. | | | MINIX has been tested primarily with version 6.0 and latter of the Apple system software. |
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http://www.faqs.org/faqs/minix-info
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| | RT-MINIX: |
| | Minix on the Net provides information about the small educational operating system developed by Andrew S. Tanenbaum. | | | It is an excellent source for practice in educational institutions and research centers, as Minix OS kernel is thoroughly documented in Andrew Tanenbaum's books, and the source code is available for everyone with a copy of the book. | | | Later, some of his students worked on the development of modules, programs and examples using different MINIX distributions (1.5, 1.7.0, 2.0.0). |
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http://www.sce.carleton.ca/faculty/wainer/rt-minix/rt-minix.html
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| | MINIX Frequently Asked Questions (Last Changed: 03 March 1995) FAQ |
| | Minix 1.5.10/PC runs on 80286 and 80386 systems using 80286 protected mode (so all your memory is used for programs, rather than as bank- switched memory "windows" or a big RAM disk). | | | Minix counts memory in 256 byte units and uses a 16-bit variable to do this. | | | You can't assemble Kermit or elle on a PC using Minix 1.5 or earlier; asld reports an "out of space" error, which means it ran out of space in the output object file. |
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http://www.non.com/news.answers/minix-faq.html
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| | LWN: Minix 3 hits the net |
| | Of course fancy stuff was added to minix (like optimizations for the i386 and more advanced memory management) but it was harder to distribute them than on a truely free system... | | | People could not distributed modified binaries and all changes to minix, as I understand it, were issued as patches against the pristine source... | | | And indeed, the Minix safeguard is better and catches more errors, but does not solve it all. |
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http://lwn.net/Articles/156828
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| | The Minix Operating System |
| | The Minix 2 FAQ, additional documentation, contributed software, and information about using Minix in teaching are available here. | | | The first version of Minix was created by Professor Andrew Tanenbaum and released in 1987. | | | Kees Bot and Philip Homburg created Minix-vmd, an enhanced Minix for Intel 32-bit processors that implements virtual memory and supports X11. |
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http://minix1.woodhull.com
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| | Using the Minix Boot Monitor to Start Other Operating Systems |
| | In Minix 2.0.3 and later versions this is /dev/c0d0p0 (controller 0, disk 0, partition 0), as in the example above. | | | On a system with several disks the Minix /dev directory may not have an entry for every device and you may have to create some device files with MAKEDEV first. | | | In this case it is still often convenient to be able to change your mind and to boot another OS from the Minix menu. |
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http://www.woodhull.com/newfaq/faq/bootother.html
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| | Design and Implementation of the Second Extended Filesystem |
| | The Minix filesystem was an efficient and relatively bug-free piece of software. | | | However, the restrictions in the design of the Minix filesystem were too limiting, so people started thinking and working on the implementation of new filesystems in Linux. | | | The Minix filesystem contains two serious limitations: block addresses are stored in 16 bit integers, thus the maximal filesystem size is restricted to 64 mega bytes, and directories contain fixed-size entries and the maximal file name is 14 characters. |
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http://web.mit.edu/tytso/www/linux/ext2intro.html
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| | Brad's MacMinix Page |
| | He is also the author of various Operating Systems text books which use MINIX as a reference. | | | There are several other Mac UNIX variants listed here, as well as some information about the Intel version of MINIX. | | | The benefit is that while learning about operating systems, its easy to recompile and relaunch the MacMinix system, without rebooting your Mac. |
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http://www.pliner.com/macminix
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| | Solaris MINIX Archive Research CSSE UC |
| | A Masters project (undertaken by Daniel Ayers) involved implementing a monitoring environment for SunOS MINIX so as to allow its use in undergraduate operating system laboratories. | | | The interaction network recording and analysis software is part of the Solaris MINIX release. | | | The fact that SunOS MINIX is hosted under SunOS has enabled a sophisticated set of monitoring tools to be implemented under SunOS. |
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http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/research/archive/minix
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| | Open Directory - Computers: Software: Operating Systems: Unix: MINIX |
| | Bibliography on Minix, a UNIX-like OS - Part of the Computer Science Bibliography Collection of Alf-Christian Achilles. | | | Minix1.Hampshire.edu - Major resource providing information about the Minix operating system, downloads of Minix and contributed software for Minix. | | | Minix-vmd - Overdressed version of Minix; source, binaries, man pages. |
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http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Unix/MINIX
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| | MINIX Gets (X) Windows |
| | In October of 1991, Linux was announced in the MINIX newsgroup, which Torvalds at the time described as "a free version of a minix-lookalike for AT-386 computers." | | | Nearly 15 years ago, Linux creator Linus Torvalds posted his first public announcement about open source operating system Linux in a post to the MINIX newsgroup. | | | Since then, Linux has grown into a multi-billion dollar industry. |
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http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3595876
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| | Minix SMP |
| | Minix SMP is a version of Minix extended to multiprocessor Intel architecture to work as a symmetrical multiprocessor OS. | | | Operating Systems Design and Implementation, 2nd edition, by Tanenbaum and Woodhull, published in 1997 by Prentice-Hall. | | | The current version of Minix is described in detail in the text |
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http://gsd.unex.es/projects/minixsmp
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| | UNIX MINIX information |
| | MINIX 1.5 for Intel, Macintosh, Amiga, Atari and SPARC | | | Due to its small size, microkernal-based design and simple documentation, it is well suited to people who want to run a UNIX-like system on their personal computer. | | | MINIX is a free UNIX clone written from scratch and does not contain any ATandT code and for this reason the source code is also available. |
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http://www.computerhope.com/unix/minix.htm
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| | MINIX from FOLDOC |
| | MINIX 1.5 - Intel, Macintosh (MacMinix), Amiga, Atari ST, Sun SPARC. | | | MINIX 2.0 - Intel CPUs from Intel 8088 to Pentium | | | Although copyrighted by Prentice-Hall, all sources, binaries and documentation can be obtained via Internet for educational or research purposes. |
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http://www.instantweb.com/D/dictionary/foldoc.cgi?MINIX
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| | Minix (Linus Torvalds) |
| | The reason ast didn't want to make minix servers re-entrant was that he felt that it wasn't all that important (total BS, imnsho) and that it makes the system more complex (quite true). | | | Last time I brought this up, ast still considered multithreaded servers just a "small performance issue", rather than a major fundamental thing. | | | I think some of the minix patches tried to work around some of these problems, but basically the system was never very well designed. |
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http://yarchive.net/comp/minix.html
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| | Minix on the Net |
| | Minix on the Net provides informations about the small educational operating system developed by Andrew S. Tanenbaum. | | | A list of important Minix developers and other Minix People. | | | Minix on the Net Resources area also provides brief comments for every link, to make easier searching specific informations. |
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http://www.disi.unige.it/person/DoderoG/minix/minix.htm
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| | Minix Boot Documentation |
| | Anyone who studies the 6 files will not only gain an understanding of the minix boot sequence but should also get enough exposure to the Intel x86 assembly language to be able to understand the assembly language code in the OS proper. | | | I hope you find this site to be of value. | | | Minix not only depends on the boot sequence to find and load the minix OS but also to switch to protected mode (if appropriate) and to determine which memory ranges the OS can use. |
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http://www.swartzbaugh.net
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| | Booting MINIX from LILO Linux Bootloader |
| | Then change the file /etc/lilo.conf in LINUX to boot your MINIX partition, and then run lilo to write the data onto your masterblock. | | | I use LILO to boot 4 operating systems on my PC with 4 IDE hard disks: RedHat Linux, MINIX, FreeBSD and Win95. | | | Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 12:22:21 -0500 (GMT) From: Ashutosh Shyam Rajekar To: Al Woodhull Cc: MINIX-L@LISTSERV.NODAK.EDU Subject: Re: Starting Minix from WinNT loader Hello, Booting MINIX from the LILO Linux bootloader is also very easy. |
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http://www.woodhull.com/newfaq/faq/lilomx.html
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| | VMWare information |
| | Pre-installed Minix machine (the virtual machine has 256 MB of memory and 1 GB of disk space). | | | We also have a ready-made VMWare machine for you that you can run with the free VMWare player. | | | Free VMWare Player that you can run the above virtual machine on. |
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http://www.minix3.org/vmware.html
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| | Minix Network Service Documentation |
| | This web site is a line-by-line analysis of Philip Homburg's network service for Minix, version 2.0.4. | | | A network service allows a system to share data (by using network protocols) with other systems on the network/Internet. | | | Studying the Minix network service is an opportunity to understand how these different protocols are implemented. |
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http://www.os-forum.com/minix/net
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| | fsck.minix(8): file system consistency checker ... - Linux man page |
| | If the device exists, but is not a MINIX file system, fsck.minix will print "bad magic number in super-block". | | | The exit code returned by fsck.minix is the sum of the following: | | | fsck.minix performs a consistency check for the Linux MINIX filesystem. |
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http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man8/fsck.minix.8.html
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| | MINIX.ORG |
| | The best source of MINIX information is the MINIX Information Sheet. | | | It contains the MINIX 2.0 source on CD and uses MINIX as it's instructional reference. | | | Al Woodhull's MINIX Site also has a lot of useful information. |
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http://minix.org
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| | MINIX CARS |
| | Lastest details of the vehicles I have available to swap. | | | All of the vehicles were made to OO-scale (1/76) with the sole exception of the AEC-Strachans bus which was approximately 1/135. | | | The reason for this exception was to enable this model to fit the "sparking plug" box in which the individual models were sold. |
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http://uk.geocities.com/minixcars
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| | MINIX project |
| | (2) Redesign MINIX so each process has a priority level field in its process | | | (1) Modify the MINIX scheduler to keep track of how much CPU time each user | | | When no task or server wants to run, pick the |
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http://www.mcs.csuhayward.edu/~ykwok/cs6560/minix_proj.html
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| | minix-up project |
| | Status: will continue one more year MINIX microkernel and its subsystems were appeared in 1990's to bring a practical open-source environment of Operating System (OS) for educational foundation, and became BSD licence at 2000. | | | This project try to integrate its historical transition by kniting up offsprings and a Historical CVS repository. |
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http://minix-up.sourceforge.jp
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| | Minix MTL-50 (MTL 50 MTL50) transverter |
| | PDF Service Manual for Minix MTL-50 (MTL 50 MTL50) : | | | PDF User Manual for Minix MTL-50 (MTL 50 MTL50) : | | | Minix MTL-50 (MTL 50 MTL50) technical specifications : Minix MTL-50 (MTL 50 MTL50) technical specifications |
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http://www.ham.dmz.ro/transverters/minix
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