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It's an educational tool, and comes with the book by Tanenbaum and
Woodhull, Operating Systems - Design and Implementation. 

I wonder what else L.T. had to work with. What about BSD? And how
similar is the Linux kernel?

Mike wrote:
> 
> Hi
> 
> Why is everyone bothering with Minix? I thought it gave birth to Linux and
> died?
