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From: woan@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Ronald S. Woan)
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Subject: Re: MINIX?
Keywords: not public domain
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Date: 1 Feb 89 23:18:05 GMT
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In article <14150@cup.portal.com> Vaprak@cup.portal.com (John C Foy) writes:
> I am told that MINIX is a public
>domain UNIX-like program that can be compiled for an IBM system.  

MINIX is not public domain, rather a commercial UNIX look-alike from I believe 
Prentice Hall.  There's a usenet newsgroup devoted to MINIX somewhere, so
check around and post your questions there...


							Ron


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