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0 pointsreidrac13y ago0 comments

Circa 1999 I studied Minix in a operating design course, but in the same way we studied Amoeba or Mach; in fact we used a pre 1.0 Linux kernel for practice (I don't remember the distro, it could be custom), and it was small enough to understand the different parts, hack, compile and run.

"Operating Systems: Design and Implementation" (included Minix) and "Modern Operating Systems" are great books and I think is because of them that Minix is relevant in OS teaching (specially OSDI, although I enjoyed MOS too).

EDIT: typo

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limmeau13y ago· 1 in thread

In 1999, Linux was already in the 2.0s or 2.2s; did your course deliberately use an old Linux kernel for simplicity?

reidracOP13y ago

I think so. Besides the computers we had access in the laboratory were limited in resources so a smaller code base I guess had its benefits in compile time.

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