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I always saw Minix3 was as a companion to the "Operating Systems: Design and Implementation 3/e by Andrew S" book which was in 2006. Probably you were only ever going to run it in a virtual machine. More of an "educational" kernel.

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Not gonna go hunt for the link right now, but I think Minix 3 was intended to be more industrially applicable than it's predecessors: there's a talk somewhere where Tanenbaum talked about the need for a more fault tolerant kernel in all sorts of applications, and I think he got a grant from some European institution for that purpose.

> More of an "educational" kernel.

If you are writing this on an intel CPU, you are likely running minix3 right now.

It's not not educational, but it's not the primary goal compared to earlier versions.

Not necessarily. You can turn off vPro and don't use Intel based network chips, so the management engine is disabled on the hardware level.

Hence, "Likely". Especially so if you are of the opinion that it's only educational.

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