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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Minix for the Amiga...vaporware
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Date: 18 Jul 89 10:17:28 GMT
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In article <12195@s.ms.uky.edu> sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) writes:

>The people that claimed they were working on it could do us all a favor
>and simply not say anything till they're ready to release a beta.

I don't see any advantage to answering the many queries of the form:

"Is anybody working on MINIX for the Amiga"

with

"I'm sorry. It is a secret.  I can't tell you."

I have never promised a deliver date.  I am not even promising one now.
In fact, I am not even guaranteeing that we will even find a publisher for it.
I am simply providing information for people who want to know how far we are.
I do not see any redeeming social virtue in your proposal at all, except
perhaps that of reducing the network load by 1 part in about a million.
MINIX for the Amiga is definitely not vaporware.  It is undergoing beta 
testing now.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)