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From: archer%segin4.segin.fr@relay.prime.com (Vincent Archer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: History of Minix
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Date: 1 Nov 90 14:11:34 GMT
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(Hi! I'm back from a month holidays. After digesting 500 messages, I note:)
Andy Tanenbaum <ast@cs.vu.nl> says:

>Well, not quite.  Hard disk support was in there from 1.0.  No version of
>MINIX sold by PH lacked it.

Except the Amiga version ;->

>The evolution from 1.0 to 1.3 was gradual. 1.4 was Bruce's protected
>mode version.  This code became official, somewhat against my will, by
>a vote of 16,000 to 1, in 1.5.

Guess who voted against :-)

>a vote of 16,000 to 1, in 1.5.  The "current version" is 1.6.6, but nobody
>has that yet.  I may post its successor to the beta group moderately soon.

And 1.7 to the net maybe 3 seconds after :-)

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