Linked by Will Senn on Tue 8th Jun 2004 05:35 UTC
OSNews, Generic OSes This tutorial will walk the reader through setting up Minix 2.0.4 on Windows XP via Bochs 2.1.1. These are the latest versions of Minix, Bochs and Windows XP as of May of 2004. In this era of Linux and Windows domination of the OS scene, it is important to remember that there are alternatives. Hence, this article will also serve as an introduction to one such alternative, Minix, which has a very rich heritage, indeed.
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by Mugwort on Tue 8th Jun 2004 21:43 UTC

For the life of me I fail to see how an incomplete project like Minix could ever be a better learning device in this day and age than BSD which is complete, is more mature and is useful in day to day operation, rather than just be an example of operating systems theory.