I followed a series of links from there and wound up at Al Woodhull’s helpful Minix site. Intrigued, I followed a link to a response by Andrew Tanenbaum, Minix’s creative father, and a few days later the followup.Īndrew Tanenbaum’s concise history of Linux come Unix is quite interesting, if unconventional. What threw me over the edge and got me to exploring Minix on Bochs was the article that OSNews linked to at CNET News, by Stephen Shankland – Is Torvalds really the father of Linux This article reported on the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution report, which suggested that more credit should be given to Minix. I archived off the work and forgot about it for a few days. After about 10 hours of fairly painful downloading and tweaking, I got these OSes working in Bochs, to some extent: Needless to say, I was raring to emulate every OS I could find, thus I needed Bochs. I dusted off the Panther CDs and 5 hours later, Mac on a PC, will wonders never cease. Thom Holwerda wrote an article on about running OSX Panther on a PC. My interest in Minix has been rekindled in recent days by a combination of events. Andrew Tanenbaum for Minix, Al Woodhull for the Minix on Bochs on Windows How-to, and Thom Holwerda for introducing me to PearPC. Props to Andrew Tanenbaum, Al Woodhull, and Thom Holwerda. Hence, this article will also serve as an introduction to one such alternative, Minix, which has a very rich heritage, indeed. In this era of Linux and Windows domination of the OS scene, it is important to remember that there are alternatives. These are the latest versions of Minix, Bochs and Windows XP as of May of 2004. This tutorial will walk the reader through setting up Minix 2.0.4 on Windows XP via Bochs 2.1.1.
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