Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cti1!mpledger
From: mpledger@cti1.UUCP (Mark Pledger)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: MINIX on c.b.i.p
Message-ID: <292@cti1.UUCP>
Date: 10 Oct 90 10:49:02 GMT
References: <5417@nisca.ircc.ohio-state.edu>
Organization: Comprehensive Technologies Int., Arlington VA
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reich@hpuxa.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Dick Reichenbach) writes:

>About a month ago someone requested that MINIX be posted on c.b.i.p
>This was supported by many people in c.b.i.p.d, but nothing ever happened.
>Is something still being done, or has the project been dropped?

>Another question is, I thought MINIX was commercial software that is, of
>course, protected by copyright.
>Well, is it or is it not commercial software?

It is commercial software and at last count it costs $100.00.  I know of
a newer version that currently sells for approx. $150.00 or $200.00.  It
is a much more mature "mini" unix than coherent is.


-- 
Sincerely,


Mark Pledger

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