Question

1. What are differences between the Minix 3 and Unix OS when dealing with device requests?   

2. What are different operations of Central buffer pool and Terminal data structure when handling terminal input data?

Answer 1

MINIX3 OS :

MINIX 3 is a free and open source operating system which was developed by Andrew S. Tanenbaum. It is published under the Berkeley Software Distribution license. It is an Unix-like operating systems. It is specially designed for workstations. It is derived from MINIX 1 and MINIX 2 operating systems. It is basically written using C language and assembly language.

UNIX OS :

  Unix is a family of multitasking, multiuser computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, development starting in the 1970s at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.

Differences :

UNIX OS MINIX3 1. Its kernel type is Monolithic 1.   Its kernel type is Microkernal.

2.It has the preferred license of GNU GPLv2 (kernel) 2. It has the preferred license of BSD.

3. It has default GUI ‘on’. 3.It doesnot have default GUI ‘on’.

4.The non-native APIs supported through   4.The non-native APIs are not supported

its subsystems are Mono, Java, Win16 and Win32. through Subsystems.