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Subject: Re: Andy Tanenbaum: Free UNIX clone (MINIX) available via WWW/FTP
To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 17:59:13 -0800 (PST)
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In-Reply-To: <400.815880019@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Nov 8, 95 05:20:19 pm
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I think it should be passed on to announce with a prefix saying that
'this is what to ell people that ask about running FreeBSD on their 286..
it should also be in the FAQ..
> 
> I just got this as an announce submission.  I'm not going to approve
> it because, as interesting as it may be, it really has nothing
> whatsoever to do with FreeBSD.  However, I felt that this might be
> giving Andy short-shrift and might actually be of interest to some of
> you here, so I'm forwarding it to hackers instead.
> 
> 					Jordan
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> To: comp-unix-bsd-freebsd-announce@NL.net
> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.announce,comp.os.coherent
> Path: ast
> From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
> Subject: Free UNIX clone (MINIX) available via WWW/FTP
> Nntp-Posting-Host: kits.cs.vu.nl
> Sender: news@cs.vu.nl
> Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
> Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 22:45:26 GMT
> Message-Id: <DHqxvq.K4t.0.-s@cs.vu.nl>
> Lines: 26
> 
> 
> This message formally announces MINIX 1.7.1.
> 
> MINIX is a UNIX clone that is now available for free via the Internet for
> educational and research use.
> 
> It runs in 16-bit mode on the 8088 and 286, and in 32-bit mode on the
> 386, 486, and Pentium.  The complete OS source code is included in the
> distribution.  A book telling how an older version of MINIX works internally
> is available; a new version covering the current code will be out in 1996.
> MINIX has been written with the intention that people can understand how it
> works.  This makes it a suitable system for learning about operating system
> internals.
> 
> For all the details and hyperlinks you can click on to get MINIX, see:
> 
>  	http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/minix.html
> 
> For people with FTP access but no Web access, see ftp.cs.vu.nl:pub/minix.
> 
> There is an active MINIX newsgroup for questions, discussion, new software,
> etc.: comp.os.minix
> 
> Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)
> 
> 
> 
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> 
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