Linked by Michael Reed on Wed 22nd Nov 2006 18:23 UTC
There are at this time, a number of what I would term 'OS re-creation projects' (OSRs) in active development. These are OSes that attempt, by varying degrees, to re-implement the features of another operating system. In this article, I'm going to explore some of issues surrounding projects of this type. In the second half of the article, I apply these observations and examine two example platforms (Amiga and OS/2) and the related re-creation OSes.
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2005-06-30
"Which was really just a unix-like implementation for x86 right?"
Sure, that's why I said "more directly." Minix, Linux, BSD, OS X, etc. are all descendants of Unix and can probably be considered "recreations."
But, IIRC, Linus' original purpose for Linux was specifically to recreate Minix because the Minix license wouldn't allow him to extend it.