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From: jem@hpisod2.HP.COM (Jim McCauley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Status of MacMINIX and affordable alternatives to A/UX UNIX
Message-ID: <16880005@hpisod2.HP.COM>
Date: 22 Jan 90 17:55:09 GMT
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Don't hold your breath waiting for MicroWare to provide source code
for OS-9 to educators.  Discounts, perhaps; but never the source.

MacMINIX will be just the ticket for computer science educators --
complete source code, a compiler, editor, and utilities.  Let's
keep on Prentice-Hall's case about this.

BTW, I saw a very nicely-packaged Minix (release 1.3) for the PC-PC/AT
at Computer Literacy Bookstore in Sunnyvale CA.  If MacMINIX comes out
looking like this, it will be very nice indeed.  I think the cost was
about $140, undiscounted.  Maybe Prentice-Hall will do it right...

Jim McCauley
jem@hpulpcu3.itg.hp

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