ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) (03/22/90)
Oops! I forgot something important in my previous discussion of 1.5. The $140 or $100 price will include > 700 pages of paper, including over 200 pages of manuals, very detailed installation instructions, and a listing of the 1.5 kernel, MM, and FS in the same format as the book. The manuals have all appeared on the net at one time or other. I've just cleaned them up a little. It will also come with a couple of shell scripts for installing the whole thing on a hard disk. The beta testers have been pretty enthusiastic about the shell scripts. (There is no point in my posting them since they are very closely tied to the exact format of what is on which diskette.) Thus the package is comparable to the current IBM slipcase version ($119), not to the yellow box ($79.95). They have to raise the price to cover the cost of the additional disks. Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)