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."

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Re:Minix was Sire of Linux

[stevew]

No - Linus did NOT copy Minux. He owned a copy of minux, and used it as a development platform to create Linux. He definitely did not "copy" Minux. Even Dr. Andy Tannebaum has said so.

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