22 Jun
2003
22 Jun
'03
11:28 p.m.
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 05:29:11PM +0000, zmkm zmkm wrote:
actually [Minix is] indeed derived from at&t unix
6 also it feels closer to
the actual old unix than other newer variants and it comes with C compiler and
an assembler in the distribution
Sorry to be a pedant here, but Minix was written wholly from scratch and
has no AT&T code in it at all. I know, I've been playing with it since
version 1.1. See also Tanenbaum's Operating Systems: Design and Implementation
textbook for the fully story.
Ciao!
Warren