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From: bc@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (B.C.)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Book Prices (was: Re: V1.5 availability)
Message-ID: <1990Feb15.030029.10071@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 15 Feb 90 03:00:29 GMT
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In article <1990Feb14.172112.17552@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> jk0@image.soe.clarkson.edu (Jason Coughlin) writes:
>I really hope instructors can hand out copies to their OS students because
>I don't think it's fair to make a student shell out $115 for 1 undergrad
>semester -- now a grad semester I might be able to understand.

EE/CS 338 at UIUC: Computer Networks (A undergrad/grad course):
There are two required texts (one of which is by Andy Tanenbaum), which the
bookstore has ONLY NEW copies of: the Tanenbaum book is $55, and the other is
$59.  I spent $250 for books last semester.

>Jason Coughlin ( jk0@sun.soe.clarkson.edu , jk0@clutx )
>"Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the
>part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of." - They Might Be Giants

Ben Cox
b-cox2@uiuc.edu