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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: MINIX SW shipping dates
Message-ID: <1152@botter.cs.vu.nl>
Date: Fri, 24-Apr-87 09:06:37 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 24 09:06:37 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 25-Apr-87 20:37:34 EST
References: <151@tahoma.ARPA>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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Keywords: not-so-grim, 640K

In article <151@tahoma.ARPA> bakken@tahoma.ARPA (Dave Bakken) writes:
>I called Prentice Hall last week to ask when the MINIX software for
>640K IBMs would ship.  They said they grossly underestimated the
>demand and it would be June 1 till more were shipped - they ran
>out about 2 weeks ago.  Bummer!!

I talked to them yesterday and complained about the long delivery time.
The person in charge of the software is going to circumvent the corporate
bureaucracy and get them made a different way, so they should be in stock
in two weeks.    Guessing the demand for this sort of item is hard to do :-)

For people in Europe, I talked to the V.P. of P-H in England and asked what
happened to the software.  He told me that a large chunk of the next batch
(i.e., in two weeks) will be for Europe.

The AT version is still in stock.  

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)