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Definition
2024
Minix
Minix
English
Proper noun
Minix
A computer operating system for teaching operating system principles.
Related terms
Unix
Linux
References
A Quarter Century of UNIX
(Peter H. Salus, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, 1994)
Anagrams
mixin
Etymology
Coined by Andrew S. Tanenbaum as a contraction of
mini-Unix
.
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