In the original post where Linus introduced the beginnings of Linux to usenet, he notes that Minix is required to run it.
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ALERT! WARNING! NOTE! These sources still need minix-386 to be compiled
(and gcc-1.40, possibly 1.37.1, haven't tested), and you need minix to
set it up if you want to run it, so it is not yet a standalone system
for those of you without minix. I'm working on it.
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You seem to be right on the "look-alike" issue, though I took it more of a base on minix rather than a "-like" system.