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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: THE BOOK in germany - (nf)
Message-ID: <699@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 2 May 88 10:44:33 GMT
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Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <31000006@nixpbe.UUCP> schro@nixpbe writes:
>I found the book "OPERATING SYSTEMS" by Andrew S. Tanenbaum in a library.
>
>The price tag -> 116.80 Deutsche Mark
>                 and it's the paperback version!

I know.  The same is true of the rest of Europe.  Imported products are
always expensive.  There are so many middlemen.  When I was a student at
Berkeley, I bought a Volkswagen in California.  All my friends said I was
crazy.  They all flew to Germany, bought their Volkswagens there, drove them
around Europe for a month, flew back, and had the cars shipped back to
California.  And all this cost less than I paid locally.  Perhaps I should
have just photocopied a friend's car, only we didn't have three dimensional
photocopiers back then.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)