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From: rpw3@amdcad.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Non-Intel Minix?
Message-ID: <16597@amdcad.AMD.COM>
Date: Thu, 7-May-87 21:12:43 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  7 21:12:43 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 9-May-87 06:45:49 EDT
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Reply-To: rpw3@amdcad.UUCP (Rob Warnock)
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Summary: $99 for MINIX C compiler source

In article <5129@beta.UUCP> hwe@beta.UUCP (Skip Egdorf) writes:
>I would love to work on porting minix to both 68K and PDP-11.
>The problem is that when I look at my UniPress price list, and
>see $10,000 for the Amsterdam Compiler Kit...

You don't need that. At USENIX, they announced a new package specifically
for MINIX hackers -- $99 for the source of the MINIX C compiler only.
Note that this does NOT include other compilers than C, nor the
compiler-compiler tools, but should let you fix bugs in the compiler.
Whether it's enough to let you bootstrap a non-Intel compiler is
questionable, though. Talk to somebody at UniPress directly.


Rob Warnock
Systems Architecture Consultant

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