ifarqhar@mqccsunc.mqcc.mq.OZ (Ian Farquhar) (03/08/90)
From postings spanning several months now, I have been hearing about AmigaMinix which was in beta test about six months ago. I had expected to see it by now, so I called Prentice-Hall Aus and spoke to customer service an was basically told that I could buy PC Minix 1.3 for about Aus$160. What about the Amiga version? There was a pained silence. No, she did not know of an Amiga version. I then inquired about the ST version, and she asked me what an ST was. Uh huh. Finally I asked about versions above 1.3, and was told that no such beasts existed. So how is this going and when can we expect to buy AmigaMINIX? I vaguely remember someone posting an article saying that P-H would be carrying AmigaMINIX, but they certainly did not tell the Australian office. "... and if the answer is Liberal, the question was probably stupid!" Tim (The Big Gig) Ian Farquhar Phone : (612) 805-7420 Office of Computing Services Fax : (612) 805-7433 Macquarie University NSW 2109 Also : (612) 805-7205 Australia Telex : AA122377 ACSNet ifarqhar@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz.au ifarqhar@suna.mqcc.mq.oz.au D
raymond@cs.vu.nl (Raymond Michiels) (03/09/90)
ifarqhar@mqccsunc.mqcc.mq.OZ (Ian Farquhar) writes: >So how is this going and when can we expect to buy AmigaMINIX? I vaguely >remember someone posting an article saying that P-H would be carrying >AmigaMINIX, but they certainly did not tell the Australian office. A little while ago we had AmigaMINIX 1.1 up and running here at the VU, but we couldn't find anyone who wanted to market it. Not so long ago, Andy Tanenbaum had another talk with Prentice-Hall and it seems that they are willing to market AmigaMINIX after all. If all goes well this time (but then again, you never know) Prentice-Hall will market: MINIX-PC/XT/AT, MINIX-ST, AmigaMINIX and MacMINIX which will all be V1.5! Remember: this is NOT official, but just what I've been told. -Raymond.