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From: kchen@imagen.UUCP (Kok Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: minix distribution
Message-ID: <1478@imagen.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 6-Sep-87 15:02:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: imagen.1478
Posted: Sun Sep  6 15:02:32 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 7-Sep-87 04:02:21 EDT
Organization: Imagen Corp., Santa Clara CA
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in article <2885@hoptoad.uucp>, gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) says:

> A friend of mine runs a computer store (actually, a computer book store).
> He tried to get the Minix disks from Prentice-Hall.  They would not give
> him any discount from list price, so he couldn't afford to sell the disks.

I bought my copy of Minix 1.1 from the Computer Literacy bookstore (there are 
three stores in the Sunnyvale/Santa Clara/San Jose (Ca.) area) at list price
(a couple of pennies below $80).  I haven't checked the price since and
it may indeed have gone up, if John Gilmore is right.

They also support mail order.  I have had books shipped to a friend out
of state.  (For those not in this area, try calling directory information
for the 408 area-code for their phone number.)  They will ship UPS Blue
if you are willing to pay for it, for you impatient ones. :-)

By the way, I noticed in one of their new-books listings that the Minix 1.2 
diskettes are listed at something like $120.  Is the list price for Minix 1.2
diskettes more than Minix 1.1??  What gives?  If this is P-H's doing, isn't 
this fast deviating from AST's original aspirations of providing an 
affordable learning platform for students?  Not a problem for net-folks, 
nor the professionals who are using Minix as a techie toy, since we can 
snarf AST's 1.2 updates off of the net.  But ...

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Disclaimer: I have no connection with Computer Literacy except for
	approaching bankruptcy each time I visit the bookstore (I have 
	an addiction to technical books :-), and being grateful they
	exist to serve this area.
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Kok S. Chen				..!decwrl!imagen!kchen
Imagen Corporation