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From: werner@nikhefk.UUCP (Werner Vogels)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: New compilers, versions of the OS
Message-ID: <269@nikhefk.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 20-Oct-87 04:37:26 EDT
Article-I.D.: nikhefk.269
Posted: Tue Oct 20 04:37:26 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 21-Oct-87 06:35:58 EDT
Organization: Nikhef-K, Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
Lines: 49
Keywords: compiler MINIX


> The MINIX Version 1.2 C compiler is now available from the following
> two companies.  Contact them for pricing and other information.
>
>   UniPress Software                   Transmediair Utrecht BV
>   2025 Lincoln Highway                        Melkweg 3
>   Edison, NJ 08817                    3721 RG Bilthoven
>   USA                                 Holland
>   Tel: (201) 985-8000                 Tel: +31 (30) 78 18 20


I called Transmediar and they are selling the compilers for f 375
($ 180).

This is twice as expensive as the UniPress deal so don't order it
in Holland.

If you buy both the compilers (Pascal and C) you have to pay $180
for  each of them. Transmediar didn't want to give a discount for
ordering both, even if there is only a different  front-end  (cem
and pem). So if you buy both the compilers you have two identical
cpp's, opt's etc.

I think the price I paid for the OS was very reasonable (I'm  not
a  rich  student) buth if i have to pay three times $180 (I would
very much want the Modula2 comp as well) for  compilers  who  are
far from perfect it gets expensive in the end.

I think there should be better deal like buying a set of binaries
with all three front-ends present.

I sympathize with the idea selling products to  get  extra  money
for  students  but  as being a student without a such a sponsor I
can't spent $500 on  Minix.  So  I'll  have  to  go  looking  for
somebody  who  did  buy it and ............ the VU students don't
get any money at all. I hear a lot of noises like this from other
students  so  if  the  system  wants  to work it should bring the
prices down to the same level as the OS.


Werner H.P. Vogels

(this was personal and had nothing to do with the Institute)

National Institute for Nuclear Physics and High-energy Physics
Section Nuclear Physics, Computer Systems Group.
postbus 4395 1009 AJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands tel: +31 20 5922030
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