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DIY CPU Demo'd Running Minix
DeviceGuru writes "Bill Buzbee offered the first public demonstration of the open-source Minix OS — a cousin of Linux — running on his homebrew minicomputer, the Magic-1, at the Vintage Computer Festival in Mountain View, Calif. The Magic-1 minicomputer is built with 74-series TTL ICs using wire-wrap construction, and implements a homebrew, 8086-like ISA. Rather than using a commercial microprocessor, Buzbee created his own microcoded CPU that runs at 4.09 MHz, and is in the same ballpark as an old 8086 in performance and capabilities. The CPU has a 22-bit physical address bus and an 8-bit data bus."
Linus copied Minix. Well known fact !!
Linux was originally host compiled on Minix. It's original filesystem was Minix compatible. Linus originally announced Linux on the Minix newsgroups. They're both *nixen. I think that cousin is a pretty good description. Though maybe Linux as a bastard child would be more accurate.
Even more importantly, can't you guys realise that none of these jokes are funny?
The reason the Magic-1 isn't in service as a webserver is that, at the moment, Bill's showing it off at the Vintage Computer Festival.
and minix copied unix, which copied multix.
Windows copied Macintosh, which copied the Lisa (also from apple), which copied the Xerox Alto and Star, which copied the oNLine System (1965).
If by "copied" you mean "got ideas from." In science this is not considered cheating. It is considered doing your homework. If you don't look at other successful designs before making your own, there can be no progress. We'd end up reinventing the wheel 100 different broken ways, instead of coming up with better and better iterations on the same theme.
Linux was "inspired" by Minix, but succeeded in its place because of higher performance and a more open development environment.