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From: griffith@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Michael Griffith)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Xinu, Minix and other manners
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Date: 13 Oct 90 05:50:39 GMT
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Don't have a cow, man!

But seriously, after looking in the Xinu book, I see a couple of items by you
are in the bibliography [A. Tanenbaum (sp? sorry but I don't have it with me
at the moment)].  Sorry for the confusion.  The grandiose AT&T logo appears
on the inside cover of Xinu, and possibly ??? Minix? Does AT&T have a deal
with Prentice-Hall, is it due to the basis of Minix on AT&T source code
(naw, that would require a source license, right?), some AT&T control over
Unix clones (I think that if you use you're own source code you're free from
this automatically, right?) or just some other reason (perhaps I'm just plain
wrong). Anyways, I would appreciate anyone who could give me more information
as to the status of Xinu and any other OS code. (It doesn't have to be for
Unix type, just anything that multi-tasks) Thanks all, I would appreciate it.
Oh, and how much is Minix again for the Amiga, and how buggy are those disks?


| Michael Griffith                     | If I had an opinion it certainly   |
| griffith@eecs.ee.pdx.edu             | wouldn't be the same one as        |
| ...!tektronix!psueea!eecs!griffith   | Portland State University anyways. |