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Re: The OS also supports x86 CPUs flowing from the AMD’s joint venture in China ...

> Unix on Intel did not appear before Andrew S. Tanenbaum released Minix in 1987

That's not true.

The Sun 386i Workstation was officially launched in April 1988, having been under development for more than a year prior to that date, independently of Tanenbaum's book and Minix. It ran SunOS 4.0, which was a derivative of BSD.

On a slightly different train of thought, Bill Jolitz's port of 4.3BSD to i386 was released in early 1992. It was called, at first, 386BSD, later became FreeBSD.

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