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From: phupp@warwick.ac.uk (S Millington)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Amiga Minix Questions
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Date: 17 Sep 90 11:52:40 GMT
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        Just a few question before I know if I can buy Amiga Minix:

 1) Are there any known problems with any particular revisions of the Amiga.
    eg. with/without 1meg chip ram

 2) In the announcement posting it was stated that the Amiga version would
    work either on one or two 720K drives.
                              ^^^^
               The Amiga uses 880K drives, or has this now been sacrificed for
    compatibility with PC drives, and mac drives? Or was this, hopefully, a
    typo.

#PH FLAME ON

     Comparing the features on the four versions of 1.5 I was slightly peeved.
Fine the PC and ST versions are not first releases so it is reasonable that
they should have a FEW extra features compared to other 1.5 versions. BUT the
mac version has virtually the same feature list as the PC and ST versions, but
it is a first release. Given the relative features of the amiga version -
NO HARD DRIVES, NO RS232 Terminal Support, NO Concurrent Users - I don't
see how PH can justify giving it a 1.5 label and chargeing 1.5 prices for it.
     Speaking to the MINIX Centre over here in England, PH say they won't
be delivering Amiga Minix until the end of September, and the mac version
until November. Anyone confident about these delivery dates?:-)

#FLAME OFF

     BTW. If PC Minix 1.3 is still being sold, how many people are going to
buy 1.3 now and upgrade to 1.5 thru the net?:-)

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