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raffi on Jan 3, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Roll your own toy UNIX-clone OS

This is smaller. Its probably more comparable to Nachos. Minix is a full featured UNIX with many features TCP/IP, Posix support, etc. That said, I'd rather learn (or possibly teach) from this code over Nachos.

likpok on Jan 4, 2009 [–]

Minix is also a microkernel, which is a whole different can of worms.

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