Minix

Minix is an open source, Unix-like operating system based on a microkernel architecture. Andrew S. Tanenbaum wrote the operating system to be used for educational purposes; Minix also inspired the creation of Linux.

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Andrew Tanenbaum authored Minix at Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam to exemplify the principles conveyed in his textbook, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation (1987). An abridged 12,000 lines of source code of the kernel, memory manager, and file system are printed in the book. Minix is written mostly in the C programming language.

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