Editing Minix (section)

===MINIX 1.0===
[[Andrew S. Tanenbaum]] created MINIX at [[Vrije Universiteit]] in [[Amsterdam]] to exemplify the principles conveyed in his [[textbook]], ''[[Operating Systems: Design and Implementation]]'' (1987). (Despite sharing a name, it has no relation to the older MINIX from Digital Systems House, Inc.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=MINIX advertisement |url=https://archive.org/details/sim_computerworld_1979-07-30_13_31/page/n39/ |access-date=22 March 2022 |magazine=Computerworld |issue=31 |date=1979-07-30 |volume=13 |page=38}}</ref> based on [[Ancient UNIX|AT&T Unix]] code.)

An abridged 12,010 lines of the [[C (programming language)|C]] [[source code]] of the [[Kernel (operating system)|kernel]], [[Memory management|memory manager]], and [[file system]] of MINIX 1.0 are printed in the book. [[Prentice-Hall]] also released MINIX source code and binaries on [[floppy disk]] with a reference manual. MINIX 1 was system-call compatible with [[Seventh Edition Unix]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tanenbaum |first1=Andrew S. |author1-link=Andrew S. Tanenbaum |last2=Woodhull |first2=Albert S. |year=1997 |url=https://archive.org/details/operatingsystems00tane |title=Operating Systems Design and Implementation |publisher=Prentice Hall |isbn=0-13-638677-6 |access-date=2 August 2011 |edition=Second |orig-year=1986 |oclc=35792209 |url-access=registration}}</ref>

Tanenbaum originally developed MINIX for compatibility with the [[IBM PC]] and [[IBM PC/AT]] [[8088]] [[microcomputer]]s available at the time.