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From: jsp@sp7040.UUCP (John Peters)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ST Minix
Message-ID: <366@sp7040.UUCP>
Date: 22 Apr 88 17:46:18 GMT
References: <203@eutrc3.UUCP> <1615@alliant.Alliant.COM>
Organization: Unisys, Salt Lake City, UT
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Keywords: Atari ST, minix

In article <1615@alliant.Alliant.COM>, rosenkra@Alliant.COM (Bill Rosenkranz) writes:
> thought you'd be interested in this item:
> 
> 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 :-)
> ->
> 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

This may be true but there is a reason for this particular situation.  Minix
was and is still being developed at the University of Amsterdam by Andrew
Tanenbaum.  If there is a copy of ST-Minix floating around there I am sure
it is still a beta copy.  When I asked in December about ST-Minix Andrew
sent a message to me saying it will be out sometime in the late spring.  I
eagerly await its arival but I would rather have one with most of the
bugs fixed and not a beta version.  

As a side note, I got a file of of comp.os.minix awhile back that had a lot
of fixes in it for the PC version.  In it it stated that they were fixes that
were discovered while doing the ST port.  Give it just a couple more months
and then we can do away with TOS.

Hope this information helped.

						--  Johnnie  --