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Oh my. Minix1. That predates me and my gray hairs.

I at least got Minix 2 with the printed source code in AST's book. Minix 2 was so annoying on real PC hardware that I had to stick a keyboard repeat rate and delay patch whenever I used it. It was all straightforward and the lab assignments on it were easy because it was built for tinkering rather than efficiency.

My uni replaced FreeBSD as the teaching operating system of choice. They also go rid of Oracle DBMS# for Postgres.

# Many, many moons ago I nearly got Aaron Swartz'ed. This is because I tried browsing "proprietary" docs using a Java-based internet proxy to bypass IP ACLs from my "off-campus" location. It was clearly located in North Korea. Then, the browsing was so slow (like Tor but even worse), I figured: Why not mirror it locally instead? And, what kind of documentation "toilet-paper" police are going to sit there watching interactively or SNORT monitor what happens to "precious" corporate documentation they forced me to use?