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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Hello again
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Date: 28 Aug 88 20:39:30 GMT
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I am back.  I have gone through my mail and the news briefly.  It will take
a long time to dig out from under the pile, and I will be in England for a
substantial part of September to boot.

Thanks to the many people who have made useful comments about 1.3b.  I will
try to sort all this stuff out as soon as I can, and will post diffs against
1.3b at that time.

The main open issue is tty.c (EGA, performance, bugs), which has been 
discussed by Bruce Evans, Charles Hedrick, and others in the news.  Most of the
rest seems to be relatively straightforward bug fixes.

Nobody has said a word about amoeba/Ethernet etc.  I'm surprised.  The NONET
option will run on any machine, with or without a real Ethernet, to make it
easy to debug remote servers etc.  The user programs built in this mode will
run unmodified on a real network, not even requiring recompilation (i.e., NONET
and the real thing are binary compatible).  Has anyone experimented with
networking?

A few people have complained that the printer driver still doesn't work.  Does
it work on ANY machines?  Please post your experience until that subject has
been adequately covered.

I will repost sed.c.  The new shar uses it, and apparently lots of people don't
have it.

If anyone else (especially the beta test sites) has found any more bugs, please
mail or post them very soon.

Terrence Holm: please send me your exact path starting at something major, e.g.
uunet.  I received your snail mail, but there has to be a better way.  
Everything I send you is rejected, even mail I sent you from California.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)