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From: nall@sun8.scri.fsu.edu (John Nall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Minix UUCP equivalent needed
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Date: 4 Oct 90 20:10:01 GMT
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In article <32438@nigel.ee.udel.edu> LISO1.dnet.ge.com!HIGGINS@ge-dab.ge.com (Sean C. Higgins 8*259-2073) writes:
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>I know that I have seen UUCP pass by my site, but have you considered running
>Amoeba instead.  I have no experience running Amoeba but from what I have read,
>it sounds very interesting and is running on various platforms.  Amoeba is also
>part of the Minix software...
>
>                               Sean

	Amoeba is indeed interesting, and is indeed running on various
platforms (according to Andy), but it is NOT part of the Minix software!
Amoeba is an operating system in its own right, just as Minix is one in
its own right.  What IS in Minix, however, is a networking capability
which borrows some of the Amoeba ideas and conventions.

	The present situation with regard to the general availability of
Amoeba seems to be murky (to me, anyway).  I seem to recall that Andy
said some time ago it would be made available, but the silence has been
deafening!

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John W. Nall		| Supercomputation Computations Research Institute
nall@sun8.scri.fsu.edu  | Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306
 "Real programmers can write assembly code in any language." - Larry Wall