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History
●MINIX 1
○released in 1987
○goal: exemplify the principles conveyed in Tanenbaum's
textbook, Operating Systems: Design and Implementation
○syscall-compatible with 7th edition UNIX
●MINIX 1.5
○released in 1991
○supported many more platforms
■Motorola 68000 and SPARC architectures
■supported Atari ST, Commodore Amiga, Apple
Macintosh, Sun SPARCstation
■unofficial ports to Intel 386, National Semiconductor
NS32532, ARM