Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!rutgers!usc!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!brolga!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!uqvax.cc.uq.oz.au!wattle!inb300campbe
From: rnews@qut.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: History of Minix
Message-ID: <18895.271ef866@qut.edu.au>
Date: 19 Oct 90 12:58:14 GMT
Organization: Queensland University of Technology
Lines: 19

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.au