ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) (02/01/90)
It now appears that Prentice-Hall will probably sell 1.5.x after all. What this will consist of precisely will become clear in the next few weeks. In any event, it will be identical to some net posting from me (1.5.3?, 1.5.4?), so people who keep up to date on the net won't need it. It is intended for all those folks not on the net. I will announce more when there is more to announce. I doubt that P-H will have it in stock before mid-summer. PLEASE DON'T CALL THEM NOW. The people who answer the phones know nothing about this (unless they happen to read this newsgroup). There will not be an upgrade kit (too much work for me), but there will probably be a discount price for people who bought 1.x from P-H and sent back the registration card or something like that. The timing, pricing, etc. is still very much up in the air. Again, I'll announce this all when we figure it out. If there are bugs or other things you want to see corrected now, please let me know. If you have any new programs you want to contribute, please send them to minix-ref@plains.nodak.edu to let the referees have a first go (I'm a referee too, so I see everything sent there). A question has come up about what the obligations of the referees are. Do you have to respond to everything sent there? Of course not. Just the things you think are interesting. If you think nothing is interesting and have no time, there is not much point in signing up as a referee, however. We hope to get a large enough collection of referees that most configurations are covered, to eliminate problems of the sort "It works on X but not on Y." Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)
jcmorris@mbunix.mitre.org (Morris) (02/03/90)
In a recent article ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes: > >It now appears that Prentice-Hall will probably sell 1.5.x after all. [...] > There will not be an upgrade kit (too much work >for me), but there will probably be a discount price for people who bought >1.x from P-H and sent back the registration card or something like that. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Ah...'scusez, Andy, but P-H didn't include any registration card in either the original 1.1 or the upgrade 1.3 packages I bought from them. If you are talking to the P-H people who can decide such things, and they decide that they will provide an upgrade package, it would be nice if they would accept something like the label from the #1 disk as proof of purchase.
ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) (02/04/90)
In article <93863@linus.UUCP> jcmorris@mbunix.mitre.org (Morris) writes: >it would be nice if they would >accept something like the label from the #1 disk as proof of purchase. I'll discuss that with them. I think there is a good chance they will go along with something like that. Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)