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From: don@chopin.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Amiga MINIX, III
Message-ID: <17236@chopin.udel.edu>
Date: 3 Jun 91 12:45:25 GMT
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In article <1991Jun3.062414.20629@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>	I've been told repeatedly by people that MINIX can be
>distributed for educational purposes. My use is an educational
>purpose: I'm taking a class on OS that is based around MINIX and
>Tanenbaum's book. So does this mean that someone who has
>AmigaMINIX is allowed to copy it for me?
>	BTW, this is coming from the instructor of the class. I
>certainly don't have $170 to spend on an OS I probably won't use
>for more than 3 months, especially considering that I already
>have the generic source code. What IS the story?

     I'm in the same situation.  The PC version is readily available here; that
doesn't do me much good unless I want to drive to campus & wait in line for a
machine...
     Of course, it also doesn't currently run on 680(1-4)0 machines, and I'm
on a 3000, so I don't have the option to drop to a 68000 mode...
	 Something like Minix would be very useful to me, but not to the point
where I'd be willing to fork over $170 for it; even if it would work on my
machine, I don't know that it'd be worth it for me.

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