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From: jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MINIX
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Date: 27 Dec 89 01:56:02 GMT
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jow@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU (Joel Wachman) writes:
>A few weeks ago I found out about the existance of a miniature
>Unix for Macs and PCs called MINIX.  Apparently, the Mac version
>looks just like a macintosh application to the Mac OS, but looks
>just like a miniature Unix shell to users.  Furthermore, I was
>lead to beleive that all of the Unix development utilities came
>with the package (cc, vi, grep, etc).  The mail I read said this
>all was available for around $100.
>
>Does anyone know about this?  Where can I get one?  Was this all
>just so much hooey?

The author of Mac Minix has turned it over to Prentice-Hall since they
technically own the distribution rights to Minix (both PC and ST).  Whether
you can get your hands on it is subject to when they start distributing it (if
ever).  For more information, see comp.os.minix.  It does not look good from
an availability standpoint.  If P-H does decide to distribute it, it will take
a year or so before you can actually go out and buy it.
 
     // JCA

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