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From: jk0@image.soe.clarkson.edu (Jason Coughlin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Minix for the Amiga...vaporware
Message-ID: <1989Jul18.165546.1581@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Date: 18 Jul 89 16:55:46 GMT
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Sender: jk0@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Jason Coughlin)
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I think it's obvious that people would like to see Minix run on the
Amiga regardless of whether or not a publisher will accept it.

If you can't find a publisher, why not put the diffs for the Amiga
version on bugs or some other reliable ftp server.  That way people
would have to BUY Minix, but could still run it on the Amiga hardware.

The problems are that (a) the diffs produced so far have been, shall we
say, unreliable :-) (b) what "standard" Minix would the diffs be produced
against, and (c) the Minix user would have to have the hardware to transfer
Minix from one distribution to the Amiga.

As far as (c) goes, big deal.  Amiga Minix isn't published software (yet)
so if you have to kludge to get it, you have to kludge to get it.  Kludging
is better than nothing at all! :-)

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Jason Coughlin
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