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From: culberts@hpccc.HP.COM (Bruce Culbertson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Re: Tell me about PC532
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Date: 4 Sep 90 20:13:10 GMT
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Re: What is Minix?

Every month there is lengthy Minix info message posted to comp.os.minix.
It was just posted in the last day or two so if you access to that
group, take a look.  Otherwise, I would be happy to forward it.

In a nut shell, Minix is: a Unix V7 look-almost-alike; moving towards
POSIX within a year or two; copyrighted and sold by Prentice-Hall;
less than $100 (last I looked) for the OS, libraries, most familiar
Unix utilities, compiler, and all sources except for the compiler;
and runs on an IBM-PC or Amiga ST.  I ported Minix to the pc532, which
was described in this news group very recently.

Bruce Culbertson