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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: The future of MINIX
Message-ID: <2859@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 11 Jul 89 15:34:33 GMT
References: <2835@ast.cs.vu.nl> <1989Jul8.171336.27399@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> <2851@ast.cs.vu.nl> <Jul.11.01.40.45.1989.26685@athos.rutgers.edu>
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In article <Jul.11.01.40.45.1989.26685@athos.rutgers.edu> rbthomas@athos.rutgers.edu (Rick Thomas) writes:
> Also, I bet it's easier to talk P-H into
>adding a disk to the distribution than adding 50-100 pages to the
>book.

That's true, but next time around I will probably only have 360K diskettes.
For V1.x, there was 640K PC and 512K AT.  All the people with 512K PCs and
640K ATs got confused.  Thus the number of diskettes will invariably be
larger next time, which does not give any technical problems, but does affect
the price.

> The program that does it can be put on the floppy, instead of
>the actual Xref.  Then people can have Xrefs of their own local
>versions.

Not a bad idea, assuming I can automate the process.  I'll also have to put
the line numbering program on the disk.  Not that it is hard to do that,
but I might forget.  Somebody please remind me around Dec 1990.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)