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MINIX 2.0
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MINIX 2.0
Demand for the 68k architectures waned, however, and MINIX 2.0, released in 1997, was only available for the x86 and Solaris-hosted SPARC architectures. It was the subject of the second edition of Tanenbaum's textbook, cowritten with Albert Woodhull, and was distributed on a CD-ROM included with the book. MINIX 2.0 added POSIX.1 compliance and support for 386 and later processors in 32-bit mode, and replaced the Amoeba network protocols included in MINIX 1.5 with a TCP/IP stack. A version of MINIX running as a user process under SunOS and Solaris was also available, a simulator named SMX (operating system) or just SMX for short.