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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Re^2: Where is Minix headed?
Keywords: Minix for grad courses?
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Date: 24 Oct 90 18:42:18 GMT
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In article <1251@sun13.scri.fsu.edu> nall@sun8.scri.fsu.edu (John Nall) writes:
>While I am one of Andy's most loyal fans, I find that since the textbook
>doesn't track the code anymore in any event, I'm going to have to do
>some sort of improvision.  And since our PC lab has only 386's......
>
>On another chain of thought, why doesn't someone who is good at organizing
>use the fact that quite a few people are "using" Bruce's 386 system (that
>is in quotes because I'm including people like myself who don't have it
>completely going yet!) to get a SIG going.

PH will continue to stock 1.3 for the benefit of professors who want a
version closer to the book.  They won't advertise this fact publicly,
but their educational sales force will offer it to professors switching
to the book (those already using the book probably already have 1.3).

To avoid confusion, I'm not against the 386.  It's just that right now my
interest is in POSIXification.  In some ways the 386 is simpler than the
8088.  There is an ACK compiler for it, and I may well adopt it eventually.
Give it a good testing in the meantime.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)