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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Xinu, Minix and other manners
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Date: 13 Oct 90 15:30:51 GMT
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In article <321@pdxgate.UUCP> griffith@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Michael Griffith) writes:
>The grandiose AT&T logo appears
>on the inside cover of Xinu, and possibly ??? Minix? Does AT&T have a deal
>with Prentice-Hall [?]

I don't have a copy of the Xinu book, but I can assure you that there is no
AT&T logo in the MINIX book.  I am virtually certain that Xinu does not
contain a line of AT&T code, but you would have to ask Doug Comer to be
100% sure, as I am only 99.99999999% sure.  The only connection betwen AT&T
and PH is that when AT&T wanted to publish the system V manuals, they decided
that they were really a phone company and not a book publisher.  Thus they
went shopping for a publisher, and chose PH.  Given that PH is far and away
the biggest computer science book publisher, this decision was undoubtedly
made for business reasons, and has nothing to do with either Xinu or MINIX.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)