Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!nwnexus!caladan!atreides
From: atreides@caladan.UUCP (System Administrator)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MINIX
Message-ID: <2bbd2b571@caladan.UUCP>
Date: 22 Dec 89 16:20:37 GMT
References: <987@crash.cts.com>
Sender: news@caladan.uucp
Reply-To: atreides@caladan.UUCP (root/postmaster/etc)
Followup-To: comp.os.minix
Organization: Caladan (Homeworld of House Atreides), Seattle. WA.
Lines: 21

In Article <987@crash.cts.com> jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) writes:
  | 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

Actually I thought it looked pretty good from an availability standpoint!

The latest news is that P-H and Andy Tanenbaum WILL release the Mac version
and it could take as long as six months (that was Andy's estimate).  Who
knows it may take less time.. one can always live in hope :-) :-)

There are some good technical questions being asked on comp.os.minix about
the Mac version, so look there for more information.

--
Stuart Burden
root@caladan.uucp