Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!relay.nswc.navy.mil!oasys!mimsy!nocusuhs!nmrdc1!minixug!arrakis!bert From: bert@arrakis.nl.mugnet.org (Bert Laverman) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: comp.os.minix split up Message-ID: <9104152746@arrakis.nl.mugnet.org> Date: 15 Apr 91 07:31:20 GMT References: Organization: Alphasoft Nederland Lines: 20 peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) wrote: > Alternate suggestion: crossposting all sources to alt.sources. NEVER! My harddisk is of such meaningless size, and telephone rates vs 2400bps are so high, that I will never even consider getting alt.sources! Besides, this crossposting looks more like offering our sources to others, than getting those sources split from text. I don't know if regular alt.sources readers will appreciate the advantage of seeing Minix software go past. Usually these are packages which do less than the full-blown things they use on their BSD and System V machines... Bert ===================================================================== Bert Laverman email: bert@arrakis.nl.mugnet.org Molukkenstraat 148 work: laverman@cs.rug.nl 9715 NZ Groningen The Netherlands tel.: +31 50 - 733587 From "How to catch a lion in the desert": The thermodynamics method: We construct a semi-permeable membrane which lets everything but Lions pass through. This we drag across the desert... =====================================================================