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From: petel@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM (Pete Lancashire)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MINIX
Message-ID: <200@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM>
Date: Wed, 21-Jan-87 17:48:30 EST
Article-I.D.: teksce.200
Posted: Wed Jan 21 17:48:30 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 22-Jan-87 06:20:54 EST
References: <1033@botter.cs.vu.nl>
Organization: Tektronix Inc., Beaverton, Or.
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Summary: MINIX chosen as SDI's O/S :-)

In article <1033@botter.cs.vu.nl>, ast@botter.cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes:
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> 
> On another subject, as you can imagine, I have gotten LOTS of mail, all
> of it very encouraging.  However, one person who works for a major defense
> contractor said that his employer was planning to aquire MINIX to run on
> some PCs.  Perhaps a word of caution is in order.  MINIX....

DOD software might work sometimes if it had a little *hacker* quality to
it.