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From: jthomas@nmsu.edu (James Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Teaching experiences wanted
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Date: 8 Jan 91 18:09:18 GMT
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Hi all,

I've been following comp.os.minix for a couple of months now, and looked
through Warren Toomey's list of long articles (thanks!), and find a dearth
of postings (or is it "don't find" :-( on using minix for teaching
operating systems (wasn't that what it was for ;-).  I saw one article
recently and found one in the long article list :-(  There is one comment
in Glen Overby's information sheet (thanks!).

1)  "P-H has granted permission to bona fide universities to copy the
software for use in courses" (from Glen).  "You can easily make your own
listing of the missing pieces" (from the 1.5 Reference Manual).  There's no
copyrite on the individual files.  Is it legit for us to print a copy of
the source, take same to Kinko's, and tell the students to buy it there?
The book is out of date; the reference manual doesn't seem to be sold
separately from the program.  How do people accomplish using minix for
teaching??? :-)

2)  "YOU MAY NOT (a) COPY THE PRINT MATERIAL IN THIS PACKAGE" (from the
license agreement for 1.5).  This is perfectly reasonable from P-H's point
of view.  The book is out of date.  How do people give their students
information on how to use the system???  Has anyone done their own writeup
that they would be willing to share?

3)  Other war stories?

Thanks,
Jim Thomas