MINIX is a small Unix-like operating system created by Andrew Tanenbaum, a professor at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, as a teaching tool for his textbook on operating systems. Its source code was made available to students, who could study and modify it, and it ran on inexpensive personal computers. MINIX inspired a Finnish student named Linus Torvalds to write his own kernel in 1991, which became Linux, and the two later engaged in a well-known online debate on the merits of microkernel and monolithic designs. MINIX was later rewritten as a more reliable system, MINIX 3, which is used inside the management engine of many Intel processors.
Before and after
- from 16 December 1986 to 11 September 1987Toyota War
- 24 December 1986Construction of Lotus Temple
- 1987Rise of Lord's Resistance Army
- 1987Founding of Huawei
- 1987Creation of MINIX
- 1987Establishment of Brimstone Hill Fortress National Park
- 1987Founding of The Temple Institute
- 1987CRISPR
- 1987Creation of Perl
More in Science & technology
- 25 April 1953Watson and Crick publish the structure of DNA
- 1971Email
- 1973Mobile phone
- 20 November 1985Creation of Microsoft Windows
- August 2003Discovery of moscovium
- 2006Discovery of nihonium
The era
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