Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!plains!overby From: overby@plains.NoDak.edu (Glen Overby) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: MINIX guys are good programmers Summary: "No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it." -- C. Schulz Message-ID: <8988@plains.NoDak.edu> Date: 18 Mar 91 18:04:46 GMT References: <9338@star.cs.vu.nl> <31603@mimsy.umd.edu> Organization: Geeks of the Round Table @ North Dakota State U Lines: 40 In article <31603@mimsy.umd.edu> jds@cs.umd.edu (James da Silva) writes: >In article <9338@star.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes: >>Three cheers for them all! 001, 010, 011 >Hip, hip, hooray! Congratulations! I, too, extend my congratulations to the .vu.nl team! >I guess this means Adelaide or NoDak will place next year. :-) Jamie, are you trying to present a challenge? (see the "Summary" :-) The closest I've come to winning an ACM programming contest was several years ago when NDSU took their turn in running the north-central US region. I was the person to write an example answer suite and correct output, then they turned around and disqualified me from entering the contest! I ended up being the phone bank that year and the next (this is the largest region, so it gets split up into a dozen remote sites where you go to write code and phone in questions & current standings). My other bad experience with the regional contest was as one of 4 members of a hacker's team... we didn't find out the programs were to be written in only Turbo Pascal until after it started (we had been told we could use Turbo C). NONE of us had used Pascal in a year. Oops... Our student chapter is having a programming contest in a few weeks. I'm either going to be a disorganizer (so I can have the pleasure of telling the Faculty team "That Program Doesn't Work") or a member of the "We Don't Care Team" (the one that's there for the free pizza, pop and entertainment of watching the faculty team). ... but I digress from the comp.os.minix vs comp.os.minix.sources vs comp.sources.minix argument. Speaking of that argument, let's hear from some of you mailing list victoms on how you'd like to see the list gateway set up? I might be able to filter cross-postings to only one of the groups, uuencode everything from the sources group, and so-on. -- Glen Overby uunet!plains!overby (UUCP) overby@plains (Bitnet)