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From: gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu (Don Gillies)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: (mac)Minix questions & sales promotion.
Message-ID: <1991May31.231626.17445@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Date: 31 May 91 23:16:26 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: University of Illinois, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Urbana, IL
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Andy Tanenbaum will be pleased to hear that Prentice-Hall is promoting
Minix.  I just got a letter from Prentice Hall offering a $42 discount
($127 for any version of minix, can order any number of copies, and
there is a phone number to call for discounts on 20 or more books).

I was wondering who else got this card, and what is the status of
Minix 1.5 for the macintosh.  There were complaints (in installation,
etc) when macminix 1.5 was first released.  Have these problems been
addressed?

What are the best reasons to run MINIX on a mac, given that things
such as ATM, Freedom of Press [postscript], LightspeedC, MS-Word,
Canvas, Red Ryder, MicroEmacs, and OzTex work very well in native mac
mode.  Does MINIX handle UUCP and notesfiles?  Does it work with VM in
system 7.0?

How many pages are in the average 1.5 manual?  I am an experienced
unix programmer: Do I need to buy additional V7 UNIX documentation to
take full advantage of macminix?

Don Gillies	     |  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
gillies@cs.uiuc.edu  |  Digital Computer Lab, 1304 W. Springfield, Urbana IL

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