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From: dburr@sandstorm.Berkeley.EDU (Donald Burr)
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Subject: Re: Looking for MINIX via anon ftp
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Date: 30 Apr 91 11:38:18 GMT
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In article <1991Apr29.235959.19438@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> jkain@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Jeff) writes:
>gaines@mars.njit.edu (Starman) writes:
>
>>Hi, kids
>
>>All the ftp sites I find with minix are for the IBM. Is there a Mac
>>version around anywhere?
>
>MINIX is commercial software, available directly from Prentice-Hall.
>
>MINIX patches are posted to ftp sites.  Many patches work on all
>versions of MINIX.  Mac-specific patches are indicated as such.
>
>And a question:
>  Has anybody received any information about the new Mach o/s for the
>Macintosh (called MachTen or something like that)?  Any information on
>this product would be appreciated!
>
>Jeff
>
>-- 
>jkain@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu


I think what he means is where a MINIX *DEMO* disk can be found.
The official MINIX ftp site, plains.nodak.edu, has IBM MINIX demo disks.
But, to my knowledge, a Mac demo doesn't exist, which is really unfortunate,
because it's nice to demo a piece of software (especially an OS like Minix)
before you actually go out and buy it.

So, in summmary: IBM demo disks ARE available... ftp to plains.nodak.edu
and poke around pub/Minix to find them.

Mac demos are NOT available -- start a posting campaign on comp.os.minix
if you'd like to see them made.
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