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Subject: MINIX distribution and Amiga port info
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Date: Sat, 24-Jan-87 14:17:37 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 24 14:17:37 1987
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Reply-To: page@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
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...and suddenly, I am caught up in MINIX.  I bought 3 copies of the
book at Uniforum, Prentice-Hall said they should be in bookstores
the week of Jan 25.  The software will be available mid-February.
It is offered also in tar format, and the 9-track tar tape comes
with an IBM-PC emulator, so you can bring up MINIX on a UNIX machine.
The tar tape is also $80 from Prentice-Hall.

A bunch of us at ULowell are porting MINIX to the Amiga, in case
anyone is interested.  Since we don't have machine-readable source
yet, we are only persuing what we can until we get it.  Don't bug
us about legal issues; we'll distribute it if/when it's running
and according to whatever P-H's lawyers tell us.

We are starting a mailing list for the Amiga port. Interested parties
(interested in helping port or just for general info) can write to:
	amiga-minix-request@ulowell.UUCP
and submissions for the list should go to:
	amiga-minix@ulowell.UUCP
Instead of .UUCP, you could say .CSNET or .EDU - they're similar.

..Bob

PS The preface to the book mentions the newsgroup comp.os.minix, which
   was not created until two weeks ago...
-- 
Bob Page,  U of Lowell CS Dept.      ulowell!page,  page@ulowell.CSNET