sampson@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Steve Sampson) (05/19/89)
After waiting awhile for PH to smooth out their disk distributing operation, I finally ordered Minix 1.3. After about 1.5 weeks the disks arrived. Guess what, version 1.2. When is 1.3 going to ship? I seem to remember someone saying it was shipping already? What a drag. Anyway, 1.2 works with my RLL hard disk where 1.1 didn't. Doesn't give the right number of sectors, but that can be fixed. I guess I'll have to give PH a call. On another subject: what version is the separate I & D compiler/asld going to be released? (If ever). I was looking at ways to incorporate sharable text segments, but without a seperate I & D compiler, there would be no way to test it. Seems that a lot of RAM is wasted on a fork, and multiple shells. Steve (sampson@killer (TAC Trained))
hwh@cup.portal.com (Harold W Hankins) (05/21/89)
As of April 17, they were shipping Minix 1.3 for the PC/AT at least. In fact, I ordered it shipped Fed Express, and got it 2 days after I ordered it. Their phone order department didn't know the difference between the several versions (both 1.2/1.3 and XT/AT differences) so I had her read me the descriptions and picked the one I wanted. Since they're a book publisher, I think they still stock BOTH the 1.2 and the 1.3 versions, and ship depending on what "title number" you order. The 1.3 version for the PC/AT is title number 583302 (off the invoice). ISBN 0-13-583303-5 (off the disk package). description: "Minix 1.3 Binaries and Sources for IBM PC/AT" (off both).
dauerbac@tymix.tymnet.com (David Auerbach) (06/21/89)
As if shipping version 1.2 is not bad enough, a friend recently ordered the XT version and last week he received 1.1 from P-H! -dave