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From: waltje@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org (Fred 'The Rebel' van Kempen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MINIX guys are good programmers
Message-ID: <9103212048@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org>
Date: 21 Mar 91 17:21:08 GMT
References: <9338@star.cs.vu.nl>
Organization: MicroWalt Corporation, for MINIX Software Development
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ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) wrote:
> place, was the team from the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, where I
> am located.  The team consisted of 4 students who have graduated or will
> soon graduate from here.  Two of them, Raymond Michiels and Steven Reiz
> are the fellows who did the Amiga port of MINIX.  This exercise happened
> when they were sophomores in one of my classes and were bored with the
> programming exercies I assigned.  They wanted something harder, so I said:
> "Port MINIX to something."  Little did I realize that they would take me
> seriously.  A third member of the team is Philip Homburg, who is writing
> a TCP/IP package for MINIX.  The fourth member is now a grad student in
> Limburg, mostly famous for its Limburger cheese of folklore fame.

Since they are Dutch:

# stty language dutch

	Hee lui, hartelijk gefeliciteerd.  Ik neem aan dat de gouden
	handdruk reeds op jullie bankrekening is overgemaakt? :-)
	Wie is die Limburger eigenlijk?  Adrie?

# stty language insane

Yo, back again.
Anyway, in Holland I often hear that "the people from the VU Amsterdam
are very noteworthy programmers".  So, NDSU and Adelaide are warned! :-)

Fred.
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