Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!plains!overby From: overby@plains.NoDak.edu (Glen Overby) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Advanced MINIX (and a fix for strip.c) Summary: vaporware Message-ID: <10157@plains.NoDak.edu> Date: 4 May 91 03:01:36 GMT References: <910428541@drinkel.nl.mugnet.org> <4379@stl.stc.co.uk> Organization: Tea & Ching labs Lines: 23 In article <4379@stl.stc.co.uk> agm@daphne.stl.stc.co.uk (Andrew G. Minter) writes: >Can anyone tell me how I can get hold of NLMUG Advanced MINIX over the >net (or even what it is)? `Advanced MINIX' is Fred van Kempen's digested collection of "everything" that has been distributed to the Net. In a recent (electronic) conversation, Fred agreed with my assertion that you can get most of what is in AM by sucking dry to your nearby archive bit-bucket and compiling up everything (it just wouldn't be "packaged"). Thus, the difference between AM and, say, my Plains archive is that AM has Fred's name on your (and Andy's) bits, while on Plains your name is still on the sources. Fred has frequently promised to make his collection available to the net, the first being about a year ago when he asked me to carry it on Plains. I have yet to see the bits. Maybe Fred could just call it "Advanced Vaporware", thus avoiding trademark problems with using the name "MINIX" and copyright problems with distributing Minix's sources. It's also a LOT easier to distribute vaporware :-) -- Glen Overby uunet!plains!overby (UUCP) overby@plains (Bitnet)