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- [Go](./lang/go.md)
- [Compilers](./lang/compiler.md)
- [Out-of-tree developments](./out_of_tree.md)
- [Minix](./minix.md)
- [Plan 9](./9.md)
- [Hardware](./hardware.md)
- [Organizations](./orgs.md)
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[Minix](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minix) was created by [Andrew S. Tenenbaum](https://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/), who was [known to department 1127](https://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/).

It was relicensed to BSD in 2000.

Some time near or after 2015, nearly all Intel chips include Minix as part of [IME](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine).
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* 1983: [GNU announced](https://www.gnu.org/gnu/initial-announcement.en.html)
* 1985: [Munix, Vol III](https://archive.org/details/h42_PCS_MUNIX_Volume_III/mode/2up)
* [Munix](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUNIX), created by [a German company called PCS](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periphere_Computer_Systeme) based on SystemV Unix. [Hubbard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Hubbard) would go on to help create FreeBSD.
* 1987: [Minix](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minix)
* by [Andrew S. Tenenbaum](https://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/)
* licensed under BSD in 2000
* all Intel chips after 2015 now include Minix as part of [IME](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine)
* 1987: [Minix](./minix.md)
* 1989: 📼 [_The Computer Chronicles: UNIX_](https://archive.org/details/unix_2)
* 2nd episode on UNIX, 4 years after the first
* large segment on GUIs, one from Sun Microsystems and another from HP
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