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An Anonymous Coward writes:

Andrew S. Tanenbaum [wikipedia.org], author of the MINIX [wikipedia.org] operating system, wrote a letter to Intel [cs.vu.nl] about the company's use of MINIX to run the Intel Management Engine [tomshardware.com] built into its processors:

Thanks for putting a version of MINIX 3 inside the ME-11 management engine chip used on almost all recent desktop and laptop computers in the world. I guess that makes MINIX the most widely used computer operating system in the world, even more than Windows, Linux, or MacOS. And I didn't even know until I read a press report [networkworld.com] about it. Also here [techpowerup.com] and here [hexus.net] and here [ptsecurity.com] and here [liveatpc.com] and here [webwereld.nl] (in Dutch), and a bunch of other places.

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