History of the Minix1 Website

revised 17 February 2005

inix1.hampshire.edu celebrated its 5th birthday as a website in February 2001.

Our history actually starts two years earlier than 1996. Here is a summary:

• April 1994: Minix1.hampshire.edu went public as an FTP site, running Michael Temari's Tnet software on top of Minix 1.5 on a 286 machine with 2M of RAM.
• Sept 1994: hardware was upgraded to a 386 CPU. Minix 1.5 is 16-bit only, however, and not much performance benefit noticed.
• October 1995: OS upgrade to Minix 1.7.1.
• February 1996: OS upgrade to Minix 1.7.2. HTTP (web) service announced.
• July 1996: OS upgrade to Minix 1.7.3.
• February 1997: OS upgrade to Minix 2.0.0, hardware upgraded to a 33Mhz 486 with 8M RAM.
• December 1999: University of Massachusetts mirror site at turing.oit.umass.edu announced. OS is Minix 2.0.2, hardware a 133 Mhz Pentium.
• May 2000: Minix1.hampshire.edu OS upgrade to Minix 2.0.2. Hardware upgraded to 100 Mhz Pentium with 32M RAM.
• November 2001: University of Massachusetts mirror site name changed from turing.oit.umass.edu to minix1.bio.umass.edu.