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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: general info request
Message-ID: <1567@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 24 Oct 88 09:53:16 GMT
References: <4949@louie.udel.EDU> <1554@ast.cs.vu.nl> <1988Oct23.010153.21320@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
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In article <1988Oct23.010153.21320@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>Will there be a similar upgrade kit (not necessarily at the same time,
>of course) for ST Minix?

No.  Have a heart.  Actually, the differences between MINIX-ST 1.1 and
MINIX-PC 1.3 are not that great.  We may conceivable post some diff listings
to bring MINIX-ST sort of up to 1.3, but this depends on the availability of
time, something both Johan and I have in short supply.  (Until 1992, as a bare
minimum, the EEC is still using the old 24-hour day.  If they decide to switch
to a new metric 100 hour day, that will give us four times as much time...)

I have repeatedly said that I would post an announcement about MINIX-ST as soon
as I got the information.  That still hasn't happened.  The key information
comes from England, and they had a mail strike in September, so the post office
has used October to deliver September's mail, etc.  On the other side of the
ocean, a package that P-H sent to me in White Plain, NY, August 2, 1988 was
returned to them last Friday, a travel time of 3 months for less than 50 miles.
By now it isn't really a secret that MINIX-ST is available in both the U.S.
(201-767-5937) and the U.K. (+44 442 231555).  Still, I will make my official
announcement as soon as I can.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)