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From: PRINS%HLERUL5.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Ryko Prins, CRI, Leiden, Netherlands)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: MINIX
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Date: 23 Mar 89 10:40:10 GMT
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I am giving up.
I don't have the time to debug the Minix driver so it works for
my Megafile 60. I dont'have the time to backup my whole hard disk each time
before I try out Minix and restore my hard disk every time Minix destroys it.
I am writing off the Minix system and the Tanenbaum book than goes with it
as a loss. It was an expensive lesson: it did cost me about 350 Dutch Guilders
(about US $ 175,-) and many hours of time.

*FLAME ON*
What should I tell about the quality of software that only works in some
cases and screws up your hard disk in others and is *very* poorly documented
both in the written documentation as in the software? What should I tell
about a product that has virtually no support, but still costs a large sum?
What should I tell about the ethics about putting such a product on the
market?
I'll wait until there comes a *real* unix system for the Atari ST.
*FLAME OFF*

If you have any comments, please write to me directly, i have signed off
the minix list.

                                        (Last) Greetings,
                                                Ryko Prins.