Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!bobmon
From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Sun like OS for PC
Message-ID: <20066@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu>
Date: 26 Apr 89 18:41:52 GMT
Reply-To: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
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hollen@eta.megatek.uucp (Dion Hollenbeck) <527@megatek.UUCP> :
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-get MINIX of some public domain BBS (I am really sorry I cannot point
-you to one, since I do not use them).  If you want to pay for it,


MINIX is not in the public domain.  It sometimes appears to be, because

a)  Prentice-Hall is more concerned with selling Tanenbaum's textbook
    (which includes the source code)
b)  because of (a), they allow (encourage) BBS'es, USENET, etc. to
    distribute upgrades to the code.

Some will disagree with me, but I see it as more a hacker's OS than a
produciton tool.  For more info, archive sites, etc., try comp.os.minix.