MiNT
(
MiNT is Now TOS)
MiNT is a
TOS-based Operating System which now has
Posix (interwiki) capabilities, thus
MiNT is also a real multi-tasking Unix-like Operating System.
In The Beginning
MiNT was originally released by a Canadian programmer named Eric Smith, in 1990, as "
MiNT is Not
TOS" (a play on "GNU's Not Unix"). With Allan Pratt contributing to Eric's project, adding Atari TT support, Atari Corporation ended up using
MiNT in combination with
AES 4.0 to create a fully multi-tasking Operating System, called
MultiTOS?. Eric went on to take up the raines of
MultiTOS? in the final days before its release.
Present Day
The current incarnation of
MiNT is being actively developed as the open source project
FreeMiNT. The current maintainer (2010), Alan Hourihane, provides kernel releases compiled from the projects CVS repositiory.
FreeMiNT is a modern
MiNT kernel combined with (the optional)
AES replacement,
XaAES.
See Also