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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: History of Minix
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Date: 22 Oct 90 20:15:55 GMT
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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)