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From: berry@solaria.UUCP
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Subject: Re: UNIX clone with SOURCE CODE available now
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Date: Fri, 30-Jan-87 13:50:57 EST
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Posted: Fri Jan 30 13:50:57 1987
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In article <740@argus.UUCP> ken@argus.UUCP (Kenneth Ng) writes:
>In article <249@hqda-ai.UUCP>, merlin@hqda-ai.UUCP (David S. Hayes) writes:
>[edited query on Minix availability]
>>      The book is published by Prentice-Hall.  They are represented
>> at the Uniforum conference, and they have the book IN STOCK!  The
>> source code distributions are available February 15.
>>      They can't accept cash, check, or charge cards, but you can
>> take a book with you and they will bill you later.
>They can't accept cash?  They go on our good faith to pay them back
>or something?

This was only at Uniforum, which is now over so the question is moot.
It seems there is some sort of regulation that forbids monetary transactions
on the trade show floor.  They would not let me take a book out; but I
expect my prefessor's copy any day now anyway.  Oddly enough, Addison
Wesley *would* let me take a book out.  Hmmm.
  Then there was always Jim Joyce's bookstore in the Hilton, where
you can buy the book, take it home and have a nice glass of wine too!



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