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From: wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes)
Subject: Re: Minix updates from PH for $29.95?
Message-ID: <1990Aug24.000258.3714@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
References: <1990Aug22.232908.10410@bnrgate.bnr.ca> <7375@star.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 24 Aug 90 04:02:58 GMT
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In article <7375@star.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
>they are any worse than other big companies.  Remember, you only hear about
>the times they mess up.  When everything goes normally, nobody mentions it.

Well, OK, fine.  I ordered Minix from PH in Toronto, Canada.  The lady on
the phone was very helpful.  I asked if there was a Minix-AT in stock.
No, she said, but we do have Minix-PC, will that do?  Yes, I said, I think.
She said we also have 3 versions, a book, a binneries (that's how she
pronounced "binaries" :-) and a source and "binneries".  I got the "source
and binneries", and it was in my mailbox (just ordinary package mail, no
special delivery) within 5 business days.  I was happy.

-- 
"The number of programs that can be done with the Hubble Space Telescope has
always greatly exceeded the time available for their execution, and this
remains true even with the telescope in its current state." -- HST Science
Working Group and User's Commitee Report, 1990 June 29.
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