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excerpt: "For those that don't know what Minix is; Minix is a small Unix like operating system written by Andrew Tannenbaum to be used as an instructional aide in Operating System classes. Felix Croes started working on porting Minix to the QL from the Atari ST version. Erwin Dondorp (dondorp@fwi.uva.nl) has taken over the task. He…"
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For those that don’t know what [Minix](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minix) is; Minix is a small Unix like operating system written by Andrew Tannenbaum to be used as an instructional aide in Operating System classes.

Felix Croes started working on porting Minix to the QL from the Atari ST version. Erwin Dondorp (dondorp@fwi.uva.nl) has taken over the task. He reports that he has Minix version 1.5.5 running successfully.

After much pestering, Erwin has decided to allow me to be a beta tester for the project. He has promised to send a disk with QL Minix, but so far my mailbox has yet to recieve such a package. I’ll keep pestering him and keep you informed.

One interesting item about Minix/QL is that, unlike other versions, it does not take over the QL. Minix/QL is just another job running under QDOS. Basically it is a Multitasking OS running under another Multitasking OS.