Andrew S. Tanenbaum (via Jeremy W. Sherman): My idea was to write the system, called MIni-uNIX, or MINIX, for the new IBM PC, which was cheap enough (starting at $1,565) a student could own one. Because early PCs did not have a hard disk, I designed MINIX to be V7 compatible yet run on an … Continue reading Lessons Learned From 30 Years of MINIX