On Thu, 24 Oct 2024, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk wrote:
And yet, Minix ran on the 8088.
One system called "Minix", from Digital Systems House was based on AT&T Unix code, but I haven't found out anything about it.
Much more popularly known as "Minix", was a Unix-like operating system written by Andrew S. Tannenbaum, the person usually credited with the quotation: "Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."
Linus Torvalds employed a monolithic kernel instead of a microkernel, as Tannenbaum's Minix used. Tannenbaum and Torvalds argued about that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanenbaum%E2%80%93Torvalds_debate
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