rnews@qut.edu.au (10/19/90)
Can somebody please either confirm or correct this description of the
major releases of Minix. We are writing a report on Minix and have
not found any definitive documentation of releases so far.
The major revisions in the history of Minix have been
1987 Minix 1.0 - Released with Tanenbaum's book
1988 Minix 1.1 - Hard disk support
1989 Minix 1.3 - Sufficient utilities to be self
supporting (ie. no longer dependant
on the native OS)
1990 Minix 1.5 - Support for protected mode on
80286/80386 machines and a
considerably extended set of
standard utilities.
Thanks...
inb300campbe@redgum.qut.edu.auast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) (10/23/90)
In article <18895.271ef866@qut.edu.au> rnews@qut.edu.au writes: >1987 Minix 1.0 - Released with Tanenbaum's book >1988 Minix 1.1 - Hard disk support >1989 Minix 1.3 - Sufficient utilities to be self > supporting (ie. no longer dependant > on the native OS) >1990 Minix 1.5 - Support for protected mode on > 80286/80386 machines and a > considerably extended set of > standard utilities. Well, not quite. Hard disk support was in there from 1.0. No version of MINIX sold by PH lacked it. V1.0 was also self-supporting. No other OS was needed from day 0. The evolution from 1.0 to 1.3 was gradual. 1.4 was Bruce's protected mode version. This code became official, somewhat against my will, by a vote of 16,000 to 1, in 1.5. The "current version" is 1.6.6, but nobody has that yet. I may post its successor to the beta group moderately soon. Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)
rnews@qut.edu.au (Bruce.Evans) (10/24/90)
>1987 Minix 1.0 - Released with Tanenbaum's book Might have been Xmas 1986 >1988 Minix 1.1 - Hard disk support Some hard disks worked in 1987. I think 1.2 was posted about Aug 1987. >1989 Minix 1.3 - Sufficient utilities to be self Most files are stamped Nov 2 1988
archer%segin4.segin.fr@relay.prime.com (Vincent Archer) (11/01/90)
(Hi! I'm back from a month holidays. After digesting 500 messages, I note:) Andy Tanenbaum <ast@cs.vu.nl> says: >Well, not quite. Hard disk support was in there from 1.0. No version of >MINIX sold by PH lacked it. Except the Amiga version ;-> >The evolution from 1.0 to 1.3 was gradual. 1.4 was Bruce's protected >mode version. This code became official, somewhat against my will, by >a vote of 16,000 to 1, in 1.5. Guess who voted against :-) >a vote of 16,000 to 1, in 1.5. The "current version" is 1.6.6, but nobody >has that yet. I may post its successor to the beta group moderately soon. And 1.7 to the net maybe 3 seconds after :-) _________ |\___/| Vincent Archer | \ / | Email: archer%segin4.segin.fr@relay.prime.com | /|\ | |// \\| -+-----+- "Time is running fast..."