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Subject: Re: In praise (?) of older Minix...
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Date: 5 May 91 17:54:02 GMT
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Will Rose wrote:
>There was a recent question about upgrading from 1.1->1.5 via the net,
>or from a PH upgrade.  I bought the 1.2->1.3 upgrade, since I had little
>experience, and then took the net on from there...  the only real change
>was the move to a compiler with separate I&D spaces, and I *think* the
>first compiler that had this was 1.3, and that was another reason why I
>forked out.  Since the compiler is purely copyright, you have to buy it
>from PH (or whoever sells the compiler sources).  Presumably if you're
>cross-compiling or using Gnu, gnuuu.... problem! (Sorry.  Very sorry.)

	Actually, the compiler updates have been available in binary form on
the net before.  I just took a look at the archives on plains.nodak.edu and
they appear to still be there although in the "DELETED" part of the Updates
hierarchy.  There were apparently changes at both 1.2 and 1.3 to the
compiler.  (I got started at 1.3 so I never actually experienced this
upgrade.)

				Bill Bogstad