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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MINIX 1.5 PC = AT
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Date: 10 Sep 90 21:59:54 GMT
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In article <1990Sep10.133812.1935@mdivax1.uucp> mdivax1!bb29c!mitchell (Bill Mitchell) writes:
>Would it make sense for me to order 1.5 with
>the [old i.e. 1.3] manual
No.  1.5 is self-contained.  It needs no other manual.  Everything you
need to know about installing it is in  the box.  It is beginning to look
like normal software.  The manual in the box does not tell about how the
code works.  There is no description of how 1.5 works.  Someday I will
rewrite the book.   First POSIX.
>
>There was some talk about a discount for 1.3 -> 1.5 upgrades.  What's
>the situation with that?
The discount is $60 if you send back your boot disk label.  That was in
my announcement.

Once again, to avoid confusion, 1.5 from PH is identical to 1.5.10 from the
net.  If you have installed that, the only reason you might want 1.5 is
to get the man pages and code listing all nicely typeset.  The man pages
have been edited to make them editorially cleaner, but there have not been
any major changes since what appeared on the net (no, I can't post them again;
PH would strangle me).

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)