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From: wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ST Minix
Message-ID: <165@obie.UUCP>
Date: 23 Apr 88 19:22:17 GMT
References: <203@eutrc3.UUCP> <1615@alliant.Alliant.COM>
Organization: the Well of Souls
Lines: 28
Keywords: Atari ST, minix
Summary: Atari had nothing to do with Minix/ST.

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 
> 
> 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 :^)

Atari had little or nothing to do with Minix for the ST.  ST Minix was
written by Andy Tanenbaum and his students at VU Informatica (which is
in the Netherlands, BTW) and so it would obviously work its way into
users hand there first.  M. Vereyken's friend might well be one of the
developers!

On the other hand, I do agree about Atari's strategies regarding Europe
and the USA.  I don't mind them announcing everything at the Hannover
Fair, as opposed to Comdex or the CES, but to sell everything in
Europe for MONTHS before it comes out here is irritating.  Perhaps the
Tramiels don't realize part of the reason the US market is so
unfriendly to their company is that their company is so unfriendly to
the US market!

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