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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Minix v1.6.x, When?
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Date: 14 Mar 91 14:45:08 GMT
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In article <47543@nigel.ee.udel.edu> mike.irons@lynx.northeastern.edu writes:
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>	Minix v1.6.(11?) was sent to the beta-users@plains (though I didn't get
>it {thanks NU CCS admin}) and I was wondering when it will be posted to all
>us regular types?

I wasn't going to post 1.6.11 to the whole group.  There were too many
problems, mostly due to the fact that I have entirely switched over to ACK
ANSI compiler.  Some things, like headers and libraries, didn't work
perfectly with the old compiler.  I didn't have the time to get it worked
out.  The new stdio is ANSI 

If there is someone who has both the time and especially the expertise to
take the current version, 1.6.14, and see what has to be changed to make
it work with both compilers and the old and new libraries, let me know.
This is definitely NOT a job for enthusiastic beginners.  Experts only.
That might be reason to post the 1.5 ==> 1.6.14 diffs to the beta list.
But that will still be an intermediate version.  Nevertheless, people who
want to get it just have to drop Glen Overby a note to get on the beta list.
That list operates in burst mode.  Most of the time nothing happens.  Then
after a new release, lots of activity.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)