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Etymology
Coined by Andrew S. Tanenbaum as a contraction of mini-Unix.

Proper noun
en-proper noun

1. A computer operating system for teaching operating system principles.

Related terms
Unix
Linux

References
A Quarter Century of UNIX (Peter H. Salus, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts, 1994)

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