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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re:  proposal for PC distribution
Message-ID: <3024@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 20 Aug 89 14:02:17 GMT
References: <9253@chinet.chi.il.us>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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I am back.  First priority is reading the news, of course.  About 50
messages were purged as being too old, so I can't reply to any of them
conveniently, but I did manage to read them off another disk where we 
keep a MINIX morgue.  As I go through the news, I will respond in the order
the messages appear.

In article <9253@chinet.chi.il.us> bill@chinet.chi.il.us (Bill Mitchell) writes:
>
>I assumed the BIOS drivers AST sent me were available in the
>archives.  I still haven't found a good way to get at archive
>material myself, so don't know for sure.  Should I post them?
They have already been posted repeatedly.  To answer the question about the
distribution, next time around I will probably include two boot diskettes,
one with the BIOS HD driver and one with the AT driver.  The BIOS disk should
work on almost any machine, PC, AT, or 386.  The AT driver should work on
most ATs and probably most 386s.  I probably won't have two sets: one for the
PC and one for the AT, but a merged one.  While this adds bulk to the package
and increases the price slightly, it avoids a LOT of confusion.  However,
the subject of the distribution can wait a year.  First I have to write it.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)