http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-turns-17
Free minix-like kernel sources for 386-AT, was the subject of Linus
Benedict Torvalds post to comp.os.minix on October 5, 1991 -- seventeen
years ago today. it began,
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Do you pine for the nice days of minix-1.1, when men were men and
wrote their own device drivers? Are you without a nice project and just
dying to cut your teeth on a OS you can try to modify for your needs?
Are you finding it frustrating when everything works on minix? No more
all-nighters to get a nifty program working? Then this post might be
just for you :-)
As I mentioned a month(?) ago, I'm working on a free version of a
minix-lookalike for AT-386 computers. It has finally reached the stage
where it's even usable (though may not be depending on what you want),
and I am willing to put out the sources for wider distribution. It is
just version 0.02 (+1 (very small) patch already), but I've successfully
run bash/gcc/gnu-make/gnu-sed/compress etc under it.
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