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MINIX

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An open source operating system (OS) that was first released to the public in 1987 as a Unix clone. MINIX was written by Professor Andrew S. Tanenbaum as a teaching operating system for x86 computers. The last release of MINIX was in April, 2006 (MINIX 3.1.2). MINIX may also be written as Minix.