bryanc@haddock.ima.isc.com (Bryan Cote) (01/19/89)
When ( if ) are update kits from prentice hall going to be available to go from 1.2 PC-Minix to 1.3 PC-Minix? I heard maybe February?
clutx.clarkson.edu (Jason Coughlin,221 Rey,,) (01/19/89)
From article <11452@haddock.ima.isc.com>, by bryanc@haddock.ima.isc.com (Bryan Cote): > When ( if ) are update kits from prentice hall going to be available > to go from 1.2 PC-Minix to 1.3 PC-Minix? I heard maybe February? YEAH!!! Like especially since the upgrade tar files were done so SLOPPY!!!!! Missing sources in libsrc.a, bugged sources in libsrc.a, etc, etc, etc ... Don't flame me about this note, flame whoever did the .tar crap!!! Jason Coughlin (jk0@clutx.clarkson.edu)
ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) (01/21/89)
In article <11452@haddock.ima.isc.com> bryanc@haddock.ima.isc.com (Bryan Cote) writes: >When ( if ) are update kits from prentice hall going to be available >to go from 1.2 PC-Minix to 1.3 PC-Minix? I heard maybe February? P-H recently told me that it should be around the first week of March. Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)
ralph@cc.brunel.ac.uk (Ralph Mitchell) (01/25/89)
In article <1939@ast.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes: >In article <11452@haddock.ima.isc.com> bryanc@haddock.ima.isc.com (Bryan Cote) writes: >>When ( if ) are update kits from prentice hall going to be available >>to go from 1.2 PC-Minix to 1.3 PC-Minix? I heard maybe February? > >P-H recently told me that it should be around the first week of March. > >Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl) But then again, Prentice-Hall are not noted for punctuality, are they ?? :-) About the middle of December I phoned P-H (in Hemel Hemptead) to place an order for Minix-ST, paid by credit card. I asked about delivery times and the girl said, "No problem, it's in stock, maybe ten days". I found out later that another guy here had ordered it at about the same time. Anyway, Christmas and New Year both came and went, no Minix-ST... About a week ago the other guy phoned P-H to find out what had happened to our orders and he was told that they'd had an order from Germany for 200 copies, so it was out of stock, and to wait another ten days... P-H said that the German order had been placed about a week prior to this call, which would have been first or second week in January... I have to ask myself, if P-H had any in stock at all (let alone 200), why did they not send one to me ?? I find it very difficult to believe that they had a delivery of 200 on or just after the day the German order went in... Having said that, I must also say that when I ordered the PC version, I was told it was out of stock and would be about 8 weeks delivery time. It was actually delivered in about ten days... I guess the moral of the story is: If you want something real bad, make sure it's out of stock before ordering it... :-) Ralph Mitchell -- From: Ralph Mitchell at Brunel University, Uxbridge, UB8, 3PH, UK JANET: ralph@uk.ac.brunel.cc ARPA: ralph%cc.brunel.ac.uk@cwi.nl UUCP: ...ukc!cc.brunel!ralph PHONE: +44 895 74000 x2561 "There's so many different worlds, so many different Suns" -- Dire Straits
rbthomas@athos.rutgers.edu (Rick Thomas) (01/26/89)
|In article <11452@haddock.ima.isc.com> bryanc@haddock.ima.isc.com (Bryan Cote) writes: |>When ( if ) are update kits from prentice hall going to be available |>to go from 1.2 PC-Minix to 1.3 PC-Minix? I heard maybe February? |P-H recently told me that it should be around the first week of March. | |Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl) How about full 1.3 disk sets? Also first week in March? or available now? or what? (Well... hope springs eternal, you know!) Rick -- Rick Thomas uucp: {ames, cbosgd, harvard, moss, seismo}!rutgers!caip.rutgers.edu!rbthomas arpa: rbthomas@CAIP.RUTGERS.EDU
ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) (01/27/89)
In article <Jan.25.17.59.12.1989.6612@athos.rutgers.edu> rbthomas@athos.rutgers.edu (Rick Thomas) writes: >How about full 1.3 disk sets? Also first week in March? I think so. Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)