Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!portal!atari!good
From: good@atari.UUCP (Roy Good)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ST Minix
Message-ID: <1043@atari.UUCP>
Date: 20 Apr 88 18:37:19 GMT
References: <203@eutrc3.UUCP> <1615@alliant.Alliant.COM>
Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA
Lines: 36
Keywords: Atari ST, minix
Summary: Availability

In article <1615@alliant.Alliant.COM>, rosenkra@Alliant.COM (Bill Rosenkranz) writes:
> 
> In article <203@eutrc3.UUCP> wsinjj@eutrc3.UUCP (Jan Joris Vereyken) writes:
> ->Because of friend of mine has Minix for the Atari ST, and promised me to 
> ->give me a copy, I was wondering wether or not there are other people on
> ->usenet who have experience with the ST version. If you have, please mail
> ->me! Thanx in advance :-)
> ->					Jan Joris Vereijken
> [ from Neth. ]
> 
> no disrepect intended but how come the people in europe always seem to know/
> have more info/products/hacks/etc for the ST than us poor picturesque
> subhumanoids in the brain-drain states? sheesh, atari must REALLY be pulling
> in mega$$$ from across the swamp. at least it helps our GNP/trade deficit :^)
> -bill

Please be aware of the facts before flaming Atari! [:-)]
I suspect that JJV got a bootleg copy from the developers, since he lives
in Holland. Atari also has an advance copy, thanks to the kind cooperation
of Andy Tanenbaum himself.
There is no question of Atari "holding back" Minix from the US market - Atari
has absolutely no control over Minix. As Andy Tanenbaum recently informed
all readers of this topic, Minix has been handed over to Prentice-Hall, who
have sole rights to distribute the product. Minix/ST is, I believe, to be
released by P-H in the summer, at which time anyone is free to buy a copy
from your friendly P-H distribution outlet.

As a separate comment, yes, sure, Atari IS pulling in mega$$$ (was a pun
intended here?) from Europe. And thanks to the mega$$$ also pulled in from
sales in the US, business is good all over!
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Roy J. Good
Product Development, Atari Corporation

Views expressed are my own. Atari may agree or disagree; they have the right.
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