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MINIX

(operating system)

/MIN-ix/ A small operating system that is very similar to UNIX. MINIX was written for educational purposes by Prof. Andrew S. Tanenbaum of Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam.

MINIX has been written from scratch and contains no AT&T code -- neither in the kernel, the compiler, the utilities, nor the libraries. Although copyrighted by Prentice-Hall, all sources, binaries and documentation can be obtained via Internet for educational or research purposes.

Current versions as of 1996-11-15:

MINIX 2.0 - Intel CPUs from Intel 8088 to Pentium

MINIX 1.5 - Intel, Macintosh (MacMinix), Amiga, Atari ST, Sun SPARC.

http://cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html.

This article is provided by FOLDOC - Free Online Dictionary of Computing (foldoc.org)

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The organization then turned to its corporate partners for volunteers, but "found that we needed more time to spend with our larger, more strategic partners," said Minix. "We now have in place a disaster training program for our corporate partners.

According to Minix, the ARC is now taking this effort online, "because it's always important to manage people capacity, and online will make it simpler."

"Our Web site nearly crashed due to the immense traffic," said Minix. The organization again tapped its corporate partners for help, who were able to ghost host the organization's site and keep it up and running.

Placing a call to Western Union, a corporate partner, staff were able to create a robust system to get financial aide to the victims, said Minix. In preparation for this hurricane season, she added, the ARC has partnered with MasterCard and stocked more than 2 million assistance debit cards.

TANENBAUM is the principal architect of three operating systems--TSS-11, MINIX, and Amoeba, as well as the chief designer of the Amsterdam Compiler Kit.

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