MINIX timeline (1961-2004) Copyright (C) 2002 minix-up project. All rights reserverd.

  HTML version

  Plain text

      [ Report a bug ] (English/Japanese language)


 Points of view:

  - Time Sharing Systems
    - Prototyping [-1964]
    - Multics project and its influence [1964-]

  - Origin of Unix, and its philosophy  [1969-]
    - UNIX V7 -- A foundation of MINIX 1.0, and other Unixes [1979]

  - UNIX license restriction and MINIX [1984-1987]

  - UNIX standardization
    - POSIX.1 kernel interface [1988-]
      - The Single UNIX(R) Specification
    - POSIX.2 shell and utilities [1992-]

  - MINIX license restriction and Linux [1987-1991]
    - MINIX and its Folks

  - Intel 80386 and PC-Unix [1991-]
    - Personal computing and down-sizing
    - POSIX conformance

  - POSIX and MINIX 2.0 [1996-]
    - MINIX, its Folks, and border of the POSIX

  - MINIX license change [2000-]
    - Its direction and BSD license


 Also BSD licence.